The
Intel i860 (also known as
80860) was a
RISC microprocessor design introduced by
Intel in 1989. It was one of Intel's first attempts at an entirely new, high-end
instruction set architecture since the failed
Intel i432 from the 1980s. It was released with considerable fanfare, slightly obscuring the earlier
Intel i960, which was successful in some niches of
embedded systems, and which many considered to be a better design. The i860 never achieved commercial success and the project was terminated in the mid-1990s.