or any one of the other really beefy CPU architectures out there. Superscalars are great for general purpose computing, but their performance per watt dollar is abysmal in comparison to a DSP.

Chinese chip shop Loongson, which has built modest CPUs based on its own MIPS-like architecture ... The list of products also includes vertical applications for the healthcare industry, a database ...

For Alder Lake, Intel is relying on what it says are two new groundbreaking x86 CPU microarchitectures — an Efficiency core and a Performance core — and it will use an intelligent scheduler to ...