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Physical Implementation - Fabrication

Deep Submicron

High-frequency CMOS enables larger caches, prediction, and out-of-order structures.

CPU Exemplars With This Coordinate

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.

VALIDATED_LIMITED

Intel 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_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.

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