High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! x86 assembly language is the family of backwards-compatible assembly languages for the x86 class of processors, which includes Intel's Pentium series and AMD's Athlon series. Like all assembly languages, it uses short mnemonics to represent the fundamental operations that the CPU in a computer can perform. Compilers often produce assembly code as an intermediate step when translating a high level program into machine code. Regarded as a programming language, assembly coding is machine specific and low level, indeed the lowest level possible, directly addressing hardware, also known as bare metal. Assembly languages are therefore mainly used for detailed or time critical applications such as bootloaders, operating system kernels, and device drivers, as well as for real time or small embedded systems, although it is perfectly possible to write application software in an appropriate dialect (determined by choice of assembler) of assembly language with an assembler which compiles for the relevant target architecture.

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