the 16e is based on the architecture of the iPhone 14, and this creates some oddities. In some respects the new phone is ...

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.

SEE ALSO: Why Apple is risking everything with the iPhone X ... as a mix of design, architecture, and technology changes -- some completely new, some updates to existing processor designs.

Now, Intel is starting to at least think about developing a CPU architecture that just runs 64-bit apps and operating systems. The company quietly posted an update to its webpage with info ...

The cores are said to be Oryon V3 spec. Presumably that indicates the third generation of the Oryon CPU architecture, which is roughly analogous to the various generations of Zen CPU designs from AMD.