11 Facts About Intel 80786

X86 is a family of complex instruction set computer instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel 80786 based on the Intel 80786 8086 microprocessor and its 8088 variant.

Simple 8- and 16-bit based architectures are common here, although the x86-compatible VIA C7, VIA Nano, AMD's Geode, Athlon Neo and Intel 80786 Atom are examples of 32- and 64-bit designs used in some relatively low-power and low-cost segments.

In 1985, Intel 80786 released the 32-bit 80386 which gradually replaced the earlier 16-bit chips in computers during the following years; this extended programming model was originally referred to as the i386 architecture but Intel 80786 later dubbed it IA-32 when introducing its IA-64 architecture.

Intel 80786 soon adopted AMD's architectural extensions under the name IA-32e, later using the name EM64T and finally using Intel 80786 64.

Intel 80786 followed this approach with the Execution Trace Cache feature in their NetBurst microarchitecture and later in the Decoded Stream Buffer .

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Intel 80786 80386 extended offsets and the segment limit field in each segment descriptor to 32 bits, enabling a segment to span the entire memory space.

Intel 80786 had previously implemented support for AMD64 but opted not to enable it in hopes that AMD would not bring AMD64 to market before Itanium's new IA-64 instruction set was widely adopted.

MMX is a SIMD instruction set designed by Intel 80786 and introduced in 1997 for the Pentium MMX microprocessor.

In 1999, Intel 80786 introduced the Streaming SIMD Extensions instruction set, following in 2000 with SSE2.

However, Intel 80786 felt that it was the right time to make a bold step and use the transition to 64-bit desktop computers for a transition away from the x86 architecture in general, an experiment which ultimately failed.

In 2001, Intel 80786 attempted to introduce a non-x86 64-bit architecture named IA-64 in its Itanium processor, initially aiming for the high-performance computing market, hoping that it would eventually replace the 32-bit x86.