The document discusses the Intel 8086 microprocessor. It describes the key features of the 8086 including its 16-bit architecture, 1MB memory addressing, and instruction pipelining capabilities. The 8086 has two main units - the Bus Interface Unit which fetches instructions and data from memory, and the Execution Unit which decodes and executes instructions. The 8086 used segmentation to access larger amounts of memory using smaller registers.