A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture in a Linux kernel mailing list post. That an old ...
Gelsinger had previously dedicated 30 years to the chip giant in various positions, including as architect of one of its earlier processors, the 80486. “If things go sideways on Intel ...
The industry broke the million transistor barrier with 1-Mbit DRAMs in 1986 and with the Intel 80486 32-bit processor in 1989. The 80486 was manufactured in a 1.0-micron CMOS manufacturing process ...