Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode
It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself.(An exaggerated oversimplification I know, but still)