Intel Processor Evolution and Machine-Level Representation

What is the significance of the 8088 variant of the 8086 processor?

Which processor formed the basis of the IBM PC-AT personal computer?

What was the significance of the i386 processor in terms of operating systems?

What was the primary improvement in the i486 processor compared to its predecessors?

Which processor in the Intel line expanded the architecture to 32 bits?

What was the major improvement in the 80286 processor compared to its predecessor?

Which Intel processor introduced a radically new processor design known as the P6 microarchitecture?

What class of instructions was added to the Pentium/MMX processor for manipulating vectors of integers?

Which Intel processor was the first to support hyperthreading and multi-core, with the initial version supporting two executing programs on each core and up to four cores on each chip?

What extension was introduced by the Core i7, Sandy Bridge to support data packed into 256-bit vectors?

What is the format and behavior of a machine-level program defined by?

What type of memory addresses are used by a machine-level program?

What is the purpose of the floating-point unit integrated onto the processor chip?

What did the Pentium/MMX processor add for manipulating vectors of integers?

What is the actual implementation of the memory system based on?

What did the Core 2 processor become the first multi-core Intel microprocessor to do?