If x86 Is So Good, Why Hasn't Intel Made x87 Yet?

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A screenshot of a tweet on a dark background by 'maddy catgirlprostate' (@catgirlprostate) with a small pink-haired avatar, posted 8:15 PM, May 14, 2026, showing 107.2K views. The tweet reads: 'If x86 is so good why hasnt intel made x87 yet'. The joke parodies the 'if X is so good why is there no X 2' meme format, with the punchline being that x87 actually exists - it's the legacy floating-point coprocessor instruction set (8087 FPU) that x86 has dragged along since 1980, infamous for its 80-bit registers and stack-based architecture, long superseded by SSE

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Joke's on them - Intel made x87 in 1980, and like all floating-point decisions, we've been paying for the precision loss ever since

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Joke's on them - Intel made x87 in 1980, and like all floating-point decisions, we've been paying for the precision loss ever since
Anonymous

They did; it spent decades floating just off to the side.
@MDSPro 3mo

We need x67 one
@dzek69 3mo

because it is so good!
@KratzKatz 3mo

Because everyone loves their x86-flavored chips
@zzerga 3mo

But they made it a long time ago! (and it was also not bad)
1. @SamsonovAnton 3mo
  
  As far as I understand, x87 programming model is considered aweful nowadays, because it is extremely unfriendly to instruction reordering, loop unrolling and other performance-relared things.
@rliskovenko 3mo

Well, 8087 was there decades ago 😁
@PortalFracker 3mo

X-sixseven when
@Nucradkillsrats 3mo

How about x8̴̡̻͉̺͈̰͖̮̣͌̉̃̋̕͝8̷̢̛̻̝̠̮̥̟̈́̃̒̑̑̑̅͊͆̄̏̚̚͝
@stef1k 3mo

if arm is so good why hasnt made brm yet?
1. @blue_bonsai 3mo
  
  If arm is so good, why haven't they made hand?
  
  @Broken_Cloud_1 3mo
  
  when is leg out
  
  @blue_bonsai 3mo
  
  Tomorrow at 11:32.
  
  _ 3mo
  
  At least they made thumb
@VentusTheSox 3mo

If Usa is so good why haven't they ma- oh right...