The NEC V20 and the NEC V30, its bigger brother. The V20 is an (enhanced) 8088 clone with 8 bit external data bus, and 20 bit address bus, using 16 bit segments. The V30 is a 8086 drop in replacement giving a 16 bit data bus. Both implementations were a bit faster than their Intel counterparts.
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