IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386 through metonymy) is the 32-bit version of the x86instruction set architecture (ISA), first implemented in the Intel 80386microprocessors in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing; as a result, the "IA-32" term may be used as a metonym to refer to all x86 versions that support 32-bit computing.
IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386 through metonymy) is the 32-bit version of the x86instruction set architecture (ISA), first implemented in the Intel 80386microprocessors in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing; as a result, the "IA-32" term may be used as a metonym to refer to all x86 versions that support 32-bit computing.