address generator
ALU
branch miss prediction penalty
branch prediction
cache
cache hit
cache miss
data cache
dynamic predictor
instruction cache
instruction decoder
instruction pipeline
instruction pre-fetch
instruction sheduler
renamed register file
macro-op
micro-op
predictor selector
processor
processor pipeline

hyper pipelining

hyper threading

simultaneous multi threading
static predictor
trace cache

3dnow
SSE
SSE2

SSE3
MMX
XMM

Athlon

Athlon 64

AMD64
Thunderbird
Spitfire
Duron
Mustang
Corvette

Palomino

Apalona

Thoroughbred

Barton

Sledgehammer
Clawgehammer
Opteron

Pentium 4
Willamette
Foster
Gallatin

Northwood

Prestona

Prescott

Nocona

Jayhawk

Potomac

Tejas

Merom

Conroe

Woodcrest

Kentsfield

Clovertown

Penryn

Changhai

Barcelona

Brisbane

Nehalem
Westmere
Opteron
Deneb

Bulldozer
Bobcat

Trinity
Piledriver

Atom
Core

Hans de Vries
Hans Devries