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Evidence Layer - Evidence Status

Architectural Estimate

Known structure gives a plausible account without full validation.

CPU Exemplars With This Coordinate

ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATE

Intel 4004

1971 - intel

A 4-bit microprocessor showing the CPU as a new integrated control object: narrow datapath, small state, external memory, and board-level system role.

ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATE

ARM7TDMI

1994 - arm

A compact RISC core where clean ISA structure, scalar pipeline, and low-power embedded use define the technology more than peak throughput.

ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATE

MIPS R4000

1991 - mips

A 64-bit RISC workstation/server CPU that makes clean load-store design, deep pipelining, and cache hierarchy visible as technology choices.

ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATE

Intel Pentium 4 Northwood

2002 - intel

The deep-pipeline frequency wager: a CPU technology organized around high clocks, aggressive prediction, and large penalties for wrong futures.

ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATE

Apple M1

2020 - apple

A mobile-derived SoC CPU complex where high-performance cores, efficiency cores, unified memory, media blocks, and power policy form one technology object.

ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATE

AMD EPYC Rome

2019 - amd

A chiplet-era server CPU where cores, cache slices, IO die, memory channels, and package fabric define the processor as a distributed object.

Ontological Atlas — A philosophical taxonomy of reality across six dimensions — Martin J. Gallagher