Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins

Intel has bounced back from its, at one point, seemingly existential crisis. When I wrote this post back in August 2024 the situation seemed bleak.Today Intel’s share price has risen to almost $100. Central to Intel’s resurgence is surging demand for the product that has sustained Intel over almost five decades: the CPU or more specifically x86 CPUs.So it seems like a good time then to go back to the design that represents the real start of Intel’s CPU story; a CPU architecture that Intel didn’t...