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History
Current implementations
X86 registers
Operating modes
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- Bits
- 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit
- Branching
- Condition code
- Design
- CISC
- Designer
- Intel, AMD
- Encoding
- Variable (1 to 15 bytes)
- Endianness
- Little
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Overview
- Complex instruction set computer
- Instruction set architectures Instruction set architecture
- Intel
- 8086 Intel 8086
- 8088 Intel 8088
- 16-bit 16-bit computing
- 8-bit 8-bit computing
- 8080 Intel 8080
- Memory segmentation X86 memory segmentation
- 80186 Intel 80186
- 80286 Intel 80286
- 80386 I386
- 80486 I486
- IBM PC compatibility IBM PC compatible
- Computer hardware
- Embedded systems Embedded system
- Before the PC-compatible market started Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market
- IBM PC
- Desktop Desktop computer
- Laptop
- Smartphones Smartphone
- Tablets Tablet computer
- ARM ARM architecture family
- Workstations Workstation
- Cloud computing
- 8088
- 80286
- 32-bit 32-bit computing
- Instruction set
- Intel iAPX 432
History
- IBM
- VIA Technologies
- NEC
- AMD
- TI Texas Instruments
- STM STMicroelectronics
- Fujitsu
- OKI Oki Electric Industry
- Siemens
- Cyrix
- Intersil
- C&T Chips and Technologies
- NexGen
- UMC United Microelectronics Corporation
- DM&P Electronics Vortex86
- Processors Central processing unit
- X87
- ITT Corporation
- National Semiconductor
- Weitek
- Personal computer
- Pipelined Instruction pipelining
- Pentium
- Trademarked Trademark
- Superscalar
- 5x86 Cyrix Cx5x86
- 6x86
- MII Cyrix 6x86
- Register renaming
- Speculative execution
Basic properties of the architecture
- 8008 Intel 8008
- Little-endian Endianness
- Integer Integer (computing)
- Offsets Offset (computer science)
- Opcodes Opcode
- Opcode prefix
- 8087 Intel 8087
- 8086
- 80387
- Backward compatible
- SIMD Single instruction, multiple data
- SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions
- Floating-point numbers Floating-point arithmetic
- Sandy Bridge
- Advanced Vector Extensions
- Xeon Phi
- AVX-512
- Skylake-X Skylake (microarchitecture)
Current implementations
- Execution Execution (computers)
- Control unit
- Execution units
- Out of order Out-of-order execution
- Branch prediction
- Memory dependence prediction
- Xeon Foster MP Xeon
- Pentium 4
- Nehalem Nehalem (microarchitecture)
- Intel Core
- Zen Zen (microarchitecture)
- Simultaneous multithreading
- Threads Thread (computer science)
- Core Multi-core processor
- Transactional memory
- TSX Transactional Synchronization Extensions
- Microcode
- NetBurst
- Crusoe Transmeta Crusoe
- Just-in-time Just-in-time compilation
- VLIW
Addressing modes
- Addressing modes Addressing mode
- Instruction pointer register Instruction pointer
- Position-independent code
- Shared libraries
X86 registers
- Bit
- Stack Stack (data structure)
- Frame pointer
- Address registers Address register
- FLAGS register FLAGS register (computing)
- Flags Flag (computing)
- Carry flag
- Overflow flag
- Zero flag
- I/O
- Interrupts Interrupt
- Return address Return statement
- 80188 Intel 80188
- Protected mode
- IDTR Interrupt descriptor table
- 80287 Intel 80287
- 80386 Intel 80386
- FLAGS register
- X86 assembly language
- Machine code
- Pentium MMX
- MMX MMX (instruction set)
- Pentium III
- AMD Opteron
- Control registers Control register
- Debug registers Debug register
- Test registers Test register
- Model-specific registers Model-specific register
- Stack frame
- String String (computer science)
Operating modes
- MiB Mebibyte
- Memory protection
- Multitasking Computer multitasking
- BIOS
- Operating systems Operating system
- Boot loaders Boot loader
- UEFI
- Physical memory
- MB Megabyte
- Virtual memory
- GB Gigabyte
- Protected memory
- Global Descriptor Table
- Local Descriptor Table
- Base address
- Ring Ring (computer security)
- Computer security
- Paging
- Linux
- 386BSD
- Windows NT
- Booting
- Read-only memory
- Video processing Video editing software
- Database engines Database engine
- EiB Exbibyte
- Solaris Solaris (operating system)
- BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
- MacOS
Extensions
- Floating-point
- Numerical Numerical analysis
- Co-processors Co-processor
- De facto
- IEEE floating-point standard
- Physical Address Extension
- Pentium Pro
- Intel i860
- Quadword
- Byte Integer (computer science)
- NaNs NaN
- 3D 3D computer graphics
- Vector processing
- Single-precision floating-point Single-precision floating-point format
- Prescott Intel Prescott
- Thread Thread (computing)
- HyperThreading
- Single precision
- Double precision
- High-performance computing
- Emulation Emulator
- NX bit
- Buffer overruns Buffer overrun
- Intel Xeon
- IBM Power microprocessors
- SPARC
- Intel Quark
- Intel Core i7
- AMD FX
- Ryzen
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X86
Top relations
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Important terminology
intel registers 64-bit processors 32-bit instruction mode also memory used register amd instructions architecture set 16-bit 8086 stack processor systems
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X86 | Bits | 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Branching | Condition code | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Design | CISC | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Designer | Intel, AMD | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Encoding | Variable (1 to 15 bytes) | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Endianness | Little | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Extensions | x87, IA-32, x86-64, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, MCA, ACPI, SSE2, NX bit, SMT, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI, CLMUL, SM3, SM4, RDRAND, SHA, MPX, SME, SGX, XOP, F16C, ADX, BMI, FMA, A… | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Floating-point | 16-bit: optional separate x87 FPU | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Floating-point | 32-bit: optional separate or integrated x87 FPU, integrated SSE units in later processors | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Floating-point | 64-bit: integrated x87 and SSE2 units, later implementations extended to AVX2 and AVX512 | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | General-purpose | 16-bit: 8 GPRs, including BP and SP | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | General-purpose | 32-bit: 8 GPRs, including EBP and ESP | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | General-purpose | 64-bit: 16 GPRs, including RBP and RSP | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | General-purpose | 32 GPRs, If CPU supports APX | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Introduced | 1978 (16-bit), 1985 (32-bit), 2003 (64-bit) | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Open | Mixed | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Page size | 8086–i286: None i386, i486: 4 KB pages P5 Pentium: added 4 MB pages (Legacy PAE: 4 KB→2 MB) x86-64: added 1 GB pages | 1.00 | infobox |
| X86 | Type | Register–memory | 1.00 | infobox |
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