Die shrink of a processor I worked on in the 90's, the C-Cube CL4010.<p>Looks like the design changed even though it was functionally equivalent.<p><a href="http://www.w6rz.net/IMG_0044.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://www.w6rz.net/IMG_0044.JPG</a>
I looked into the differences between the 8086 and 8088 because the 8086 was selected for most designs when the 8088 was already available.<p>Turns out the 8088 has less compute power. I think all Intel chips since than have higher numbers if they are more powerful, not if they are more recent.