Given the extreme complexity of the modern CPU chips and the parallelism of their internal processes, as well as the fact that the “architecture” (the instructi

Given the extreme complexity of the modern CPU chips and the parallelism of their internal processes, as well as the fact that the “architecture” (the instruction set, registers, etc.) is now far removed from how things are done at the hardware level, - does the notion of a “CPU cycle” still make sense?