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Title: Intel® 8088 Microprocessor Package, 1979
Creator: Intel Corporation
Contributor: Intel Microprocessor Packages
Date Created and/or Issued: 1979 1979
Publication Information: Intel Museum Archives
Contributing Institution: Intel Museum
Collection: Intel Museum Silicon Valley History Online Collection
Rights Information: Copyright ©Intel Corporation 1979. 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 1979. 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: Color slide of the Intel® 8088 microprocessor package. Clock speed: 5 MHz (.33 MIPS) 8 MHz (.75 MIPS). Internal architecture: 16 bits. External Bus Width: 8 bits. Transistor Count: 29,000. Chip Performance .75 MIPS (millions of instructions per second). Circuit Line Size: 3 microns. The 8086/88 microprocessors were built on 6-inch and 4-inch silicon wafers. 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."
Type: image
Format: 16 x 24 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9d5nc8p6
cstcli 1998.1238 RNB Slide 14-6-7
Language: English
Subject: Electronic industries; Intel microprocessors; Microprocessor packages; Photographs; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Semiconductor wafers; Technology
Source: lcsh, local

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