Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange
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Author: pwg
Date: 5/30/2026
Article Summary:
The author is part of a group called the Opcode Collective, which is reverse-engineering the microcode of the Intel 8087 floating-point chip, a co-processor that made floating-point operations up to 100 times faster.