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General details about CPUs?

Thank you Thunder 57 for your response..
any good read for a complete novice. actually i am a student, and want to learn about processors. what are main parametres to know and why cant cell phone processors be used in a laptop and vice versa. and where both differ.
 
look up the wiki pages for

CPU
x86 (desktop/laptop)
Reduced instruction set computer (smartphones/apple)

That will give you a good overview.
At the end of each article there are reference links as well as further reading links
 
Realworldtech and Anandtech articles about Zen, Nehalem, Sandy Bridge, Haswell/Broadwell and Bulldozer. All togheter are basically a cpu architecture class.
 
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