Sorry, but you don't happen to be a famous bending robot by any chance? On a more serious note, the pipeline layout could be a side effect of how Shima worked

Sorry, but you don't happen to be a famous bending robot by any chance? On a more serious note, the pipeline layout could be a side effect of how Shima worked with logic and transistor layout simultaneously (he was not involved in 8086, but a lot of design came from his 8080) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Shima