Memory System - Hierarchy
Private L2
A second near level filters misses before shared fabric or DRAM.
CPU Exemplars With This Coordinate
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.
VALIDATED_LIMITEDIntel Pentium Pro
1995 - intel
A hinge point for x86: instructions become internal uops, speculation becomes central, and the CPU starts behaving like a dynamic scheduling machine.
ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATEIntel 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.