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Microarchitecture is defined as those elements of a CPU design which are, to first order, invisible to application programmers (ie, not part of the instruction set). Those elements which are visible comprise the [[architecture]].
Microarchitecture is defined as those elements of a CPU design which are, to first order, invisible to application programmers (ie, not part of the instruction set). Those elements which are visible comprise the [[architecture]].
{| class="wikitable"
|+ x86 Microarchitectures
! Microarchitecture
! Maker
! Process (min)
! ALU bits
! Addr bits
|-
| 8086
| Intel
| 3.2 μm
| 16
| 20
|-
|}