After a good discussion with one of the Mods, I have decided to start a thread bundling all the good-to-read articles, obviously CPUs seem to be a good start, I will be adding article links gradually (maybe weekly) and everyone is gladly welcome to pinpoint any good one ...
first off
The
very basic look at the smallest unit of a cpu, if you want a deeper understanding of the transistors well anandTech doesn't fail to impress with
this detailed explanation. thanks to rolf, here are some
images showing the transistors
CISC vs RISC
intel mainly uses CISC architecture for their CPUs, while, and most probably, the phone you are holding is a RISC architecture CPU, so
here is a simple explanation of the differences between the architectures, there is also the
MIPS architecture.
youTube
General idea of all the concepts
I will be reading more articles along the way and posting new ones - everyone interested is encouraged to reference, and it will be added in the topmost posts.