Title:
Intel® 8088 Processor, 1978
Creator:
Intel Corporation
Subject:
Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor dies; Photographs;
Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Description:
Enlarged color photograph of the Intel® 8088 processor. A pivotal sale to
IBM's new personal computer division made the 8088 the brains of IBM's new hit
product--the IBM PC. The 8088's success propelled Intel into the ranks of the Fortune
500, and Fortune magazine named the company one of the "Business Triumphs of
the Seventies." Although the 8086 and related 8088 ushered in a new age of
computing, many at Intel viewed these two relatively modest chips as a means to buy time
until the launch of the powerful 432, a higher-end processor designed to deliver
mainframe-like capabilities in silicon. In fact, the two processors bought much more
than just time-the enormous success of the 8086 and 8088 chips helped Intel initiate a
succession of processors that incorporated numerous features and steadily increased the
processor speed.
Publisher:
Intel Museum Archives
Contributor:
Intel Microprocessor Die
Date:
1978 1978
Type:
Photograph
Format:
20 x 25 cm.
Identifier:
cstcli 1998.1240 - 260757
Source:
lcsh, local
Language:
eng
Relation:
Silicon Valley History Online
Coverage:
ark:/13030/kt8h4nc92q
Rights:
Copyright ©Intel Corporation 1978. All Rights Reserved. Transmission and
reproduction of a single copy of this work for non-commercial use in research or
teaching in the United States is permitted if Intel is credited as the source of the
work. The work must remain intact, as a complete whole and may not be combined with any
other image or work to create a new document. Copyright ©Intel Corporation 1978. All
Rights Reserved. Transmission and reproduction of a single copy of this work for
non-commercial use in research or teaching in the United States is permitted if Intel is
credited as the source of the work. The work must remain intact, as a complete whole and
may not be combined with any other image or work to create a new document.