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.

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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.
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