Sandy Bridge was the last really big architectural change. It seems heavily inspired by the Alpha EV8 design (Intel bought Alpha from HP in the 2001) with of co

Sandy Bridge was the last really big architectural change. It seems heavily inspired by the Alpha EV8 design (Intel bought Alpha from HP in the 2001) with of course, a very different decoder section (they wrap the x86 decoder around a RISC architecture). https://www.realworldtech.com/alpha-ev8-wider/ https://www.realworldtech.com/alpha-ev8-wider/