Back in the last century, Intel saw itself faced with a need to have ‘second source’ suppliers of its 8088 and 8086 processors, which saw NEC being roped in to be one of those alternative supp ...
Intel has had a deathgrip on the PC world since the standardization ... based on Arduino which makes use of the 8088 with some upgrades to support the NEC V20 and a test suite for a V20 emulator ...
If you are working on a PC today, there's a good chance that it's using a chip that can trace its roots down to the Intel 8088 processor. That chip launched 44 years ago today, on June 1 ...