Wasted Neurons Wednesday - Intel's forgotten processor Submitted by Philip Storry on Wed, 03/04/2013 - 22:07 Intel really struck it big when IBM's PC design used their 8088 as it's CPU. The Intel 8088 was a budget version of the Intel 8086 - the money was saved by only giving the 8088 an 8-bit data bus instead of a 16- bit one. So here's the thing... Read more about Wasted Neurons Wednesday - Intel's forgotten processor