The Intel 80188 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 80186.

The 80188 had an 8-bit

external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 80186; this made it less expensive to connect
to peripherals. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range were unchanged, however.
It had a throughput of 1 million instructions per second.[1]

Features and performance[edit]

The 80188 series was generally intended for embedded systems, as microcontrollers with external
memory. Therefore, to reduce the number of chips required, it included features such as clock
generator, interrupt controller, timers, wait state generator, DMA channels, and external chip
select lines. While the N80188 was compatible with the 8087 numerics co-processor, the 80C188
was not. It didn't have the ESC control codes integrated.
The initial clock rate of the 80188 was 6 MHz, but due to more hardware available for
the microcode to use, especially for address calculation, many individual instructions ran faster than
on an 8086 at the same clock frequency. For instance, the common register+immediate[a] addressing
mode was significantly faster than on the 8086, especially when a memory location was both (one of
the) operand(s) and the destination. Multiply and divide also showed great improvement, being
several times as fast as on the original 8086 and multi-bit shifts were done almost four times as
quickly as in the 8086.

End of life[edit]
Along with hundreds of other processor models, Intel discontinued the 80188 processor 30 March
2006, after a life of about 24 years.[2]
The 80186 microprocessor was developed by Intel in 1982. It is an improved 8086 with several common support
functions built in: clock generator, system controller, interrupt controller, DMA controller, and timer/counter. It also
added 8 new instructions and executes instructions faster than the 8086. As with the 8086, it has a 16-bit external
bus and is also available as the 80188, with an 8-bit external data bus. The initial clock rate of the 80186 and 80188
was 6 MHz. They were, and still are, generally used as embedded processors but also as the CPU of few personal
computers:

o The Mindset graphics computer, a very advanced computer for the time. It had proprietary chips that
enhanced and sped up the graphics.
o The original Gateway Handbook, a small subnotebook computer.
o The Telenova Compis, a Swedish school computer.
o The Tandy 2000, a somewhat PC-compatible workstation featuring particularly advanced graphics for its
time.

In 1987 Intel announced the second generation of the 80186 family: the 80C186/C188. The 80186 was redesigned
as a static, stand-alone module known as the 80C186 Modular Core and is pin compatible with the 80186 family,
while adding an enhanced feature set. The high-performance CHMOS III process allowed the 80C186 to run at twice
the clock rate of the NMOS 80186, while consuming less than one-fourth the power. 
In 1991 the 80C186 Modular Core family was again extended with the introduction of the 80C186XL. The
80C186XL/C188XL is a higher performance, lower power replacement for the 80C186/C188.