Etching silicon…
Inside the microprocessor
Intel 8086 · how a CPU actually works
Chapter 01

The Intel 8086

A 16-bit microprocessor from 1978 — about 29,000 transistors on a sliver of silicon. The ancestor of every PC chip. Scroll to climb inside.

Fetch
Instruction
address bus0x00100
AX register0
ALU
Port 0x400
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