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Title: Intel® 8088 Processor, 1978
Creator: Intel Corporation
Contributor: Intel Microprocessor Die
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978 1978
Publication Information: Intel Museum Archives
Contributing Institution: Intel Museum
Collection: Intel Museum Silicon Valley History Online Collection
Rights Information: 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.
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.
Type: image
Format: 20 x 25 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8h4nc92q
cstcli 1998.1240 - 260757
Language: English
Subject: Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor dies; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology
Source: lcsh, local

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