These modifications of the basic 8086 design were one of the first jobs assigned to Intel's new design office and laboratory in Haifa. The prefetch queue of the 8088 was shortened to four bytes, from the 8086's six bytes, and the prefetch algorithm was slightly modified to adapt to the narrower bus. The 8088 was targeted at economical systems by allowing the use of an eight-bit data path and eight-bit support and peripheral chips complex circuit boards were still fairly cumbersome and expensive when it was released. The 8088 was designed at Intel's laboratory in Haifa, Israel, as were a large number of Intel's processors.
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