Last week, at Computex in Taipei, Intel introduced the Core i7 8086K Anniversary Edition processor to celebrate the very first introduction of the so-called x86 architecture, the Intel 8086, exactly 40 years ago. The new Limited Edition processor is the first Intel CPU with an official clock frequency of 5 GHz. That is very promising

Processors speak a certain language, the microarchitecture in jargon. With smartphone chips this is the ARM architecture while Intel and AMD PC processors are based on the x86 architecture that was created 40 years ago. Of course, during these years, the x86 architecture has been extended to include all kinds of bells and whistles, and today's processors, which are made up of billions of transistors, no longer resemble the 1978 Intel 8086 chip. It consisted of about 29,000 mini switches!