Intel 8087 - Successors

Successors

Just as the 8088 and 8086 processors were superseded by later parts, so was the 8087 superseded. Other Intel coprocessors were the 80287, 80387, and the 80187. The 80487 was in fact a full blown i486DX chip with an extra pin. The 80486DX, Pentium, and later processors include floating-point functionality on the CPU core.

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