Intel 80286

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The intel 80286 is a microprocessor introduced by semiconductor manufacturer intel in the early 1980s.[1] It is a lineal descendant of intel's earlier successful central processing unit, the 8088, which had powered IBM's very successful IBM-PC. In 1984, when IBM introduced a more powerful successor to the IBM-PC, the IBM-AT, they built it around the 80286.

The 6 megahertz version of the 80286 contained 134,000 transistors, and needed to supplied with 5 volts of power.[2] The chip is 47 square millimeters.

Its datapath is 16 bits wide.[2]

References

  1. David E. Sanger. The great war over superchips, New York Times, 1984-09-09, p. C1. Retrieved on 2009-02-22.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Intel 80286, Stanford Open CPU Database. Retrieved on 2021-03-26.