14 Jun
2026
14 Jun
'26
9:24 a.m.
There is very little original 8086 technology in a modern Intel CPU, and
whatever there still is, it is mostly holding back the capabilities of
the chips.
By numbers, ARM has already won, long ago.
Julf
On 14/06/2026 5:27 pm, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Intel's x86 technology as in the 8086 came into
existence for the
microcomputer-user at this time back in June 1978. It was a response to
Motorola's and Zilog's move to 16-bit processing. Still in use today...the
basic tech so to speak. Can it be unseated by RISC(Apple and such) and
Nvidia?
Happy computing.
Murray 🙂