Beyond the Valley of the Lost Processors: Problems, Fallacies, and Pitfalls in Processor Design

During the entire 70 years of computer development, a huge variety of discrete and embedded processor species have emerged, evolved, and sometimes died out. Many strange and wonderful designs resulted from this evolution. Sometimes these strange and wonderful concepts lived on, some died out almost immediately, and some lived for only a short while – only to die off and then reappear as their gene lines re-emerged in later species.