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186 Processors
186 Standard Processor Family
For the 186 standard processor family, the numbers tell the story: more than 10,000 design wins and 150 million units have shipped in its 12 years of production. With the 186 family of products, you can determine the cost and performance requirements for your embedded design and then choose from a wide variety of options: CHMOS, HMOS, and 8- and 16-bit external bus versions.

The 80C186/188XL family is pin-for-pin compatible with the 80186/188 family and ads an enhanced feature set. The high-performance CHMOS process allows the 80C186/188XL to run twice the clock rate of the HMOS 80186/188 while consuming less than one-fourth the power.

186 Enhanced Processor Family
In 1990, Intel designed these processors to meet performance, integration and power consumption needs. Intel created a modular core architecture in order to easily proliferate the family. The 80C186Ex family features an improved 1-micron static core design, and all of the enhanced products run at 25mhz. In addition, the Ex family products incorporate new features (serial channels, DRAM refresh control and power management) to provide more functionality. The Ex core has also been enhanced to run at 3 volts.