Intel 8088

Intel 8088 adalah prosesor mikro buatan Intel berbasis pada 8086, dengan 16-bit register dan menggunakan 8-bit external data bus. intel 8088 merupakan prosesor yang digunakan pada IBM PC.

An Intel 8088 microprocessor.

8088 ditargetkan pada sistem yang ekonomis, diikuti oleh pengunaan desain 8-bit.Jalur bus yang lebar dalam circuit boards masih sangatlah mahal ketika ini di luncurkan.Queue yang ungul dari 8088 adalah 4 bytes, sebagai penggunaan dalam 8086 6 bytes.8088 merupakan termasuk keturunan dari 80188, 80288, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, dan 80388, microcontroller seperti yang masih digunakan sekarang. lihat daftar lengkap di bawah The most influential microcomputer to use the 8088 was, by far, the IBM PC. The original PC processor ran at a clock frequency of 4.77 MHz. A popular clone using an 8088 was the Leading Edge Model D, with a switch to select running at 4.77 MHz or 7.16 MHz.

Apparently IBM's own engineers wanted to use the Motorola 68000, and it was used later in the forgotten IBM Instruments 9000 Laboratory Computer, but IBM already had rights to manufacture the 8086 family, in exchange for giving Intel the rights to its bubble memory designs. A factor for using the 8-bit Intel 8088 version was that it could use existing Intel 8085-type components, and allowed the computer to be based on a modified 8085 design. 68000 components were not widely available at the time, though it could use Motorola 6800 components to an extent. Intel bubble memory was on the market for a while, but Intel left the market due to fierce competition from Japanese corporations who could undercut by cost, and left the memory market to focus on processors.

A compatible replacement chip, the V20, was produced by NEC for an approximate 20 percent improvement in computing power.