Sunny Cove: Intel’s Lost Generation
&gt; <i>This is going the be the first in a series of articles on CPU architectures. We’re picking up where Real World Tech left off with its microarchitecture deep dives. And we’re going to be doing them with the advantage of 20-20 hindsight, and hardware to test on.</i><p>I really miss this part of the cybergeekdom. Staring deeply at minor&#x2F;major tweaks to architecture (&quot;oh they switched from 4-way to 8-way associative cached!&quot;) was such a very real very physical very truthful part of computing for so long. We all got to see what was happening.<p>Today if you buy a Google laptop or phone, they won&#x27;t tell you what generation or model cpu you are getting (Pixelbook Go&#x27;s tech specs: &quot;Intel m3&quot;), what clocks it has. It&#x27;s such a different age from where we were. It&#x27;s so hard to believe that we can sell a laptop &amp; have no idea what powers it. It makes sense, but it&#x27;s still a system shock everytime to me.