Intel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978 — CPU was designed as a temporary substitute for the delayed iAPX 432 project
…We’ve had Windows-on-Arm efforts from Qualcomm and Mediatek try to usurp x86 with muted success. At the recent Computex 2026 there was a lot of buzz about Nvidia’s…