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Intel 8087

This page will show all objects that classify as Intel 8087. The 8087 has been made by Intel, a company that has been around since 1968 and is today's biggest processor company. They started with the i4004, a microprocessor for calculators and such, but got popular with the 8086 and 8088. IBM used that processor in it's IBM-PC and clones of the IBM PC obviously used the same processor as well. Thanks to this evolution Intel could find it's way on the market and develop successors of the 8086 all up to todays Core i7.

Intel 8087 -2 'N/A'

The first x86 16-bits co-processor (FPU; floating point unit) which can work with both the 8086 and 8088. Back in the old days the normal processors didn't have a co-processor for floating point calculations. You didn't really need one and if you did as specialized CAD/CAM or mathematics user you could upgrade your system with an FPU. Both the 286 and 386SX and 386DX didn't have a co-processor. It was not until the 486DX before processors had FPU's integrated.

The 8087 has 45,000 transistors which is a lot more than the 29,000 of the 8086. > Read more