From: buzz_mccool@yahoo.com   
      
   On 12/2/2025 10:12 AM, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   >   
   > The Pentium 8505 is an Alder Lake U with half of it's P-cores and half   
   > of its E-Cores disabled, and some of the cache, leaving 1 P-Core and 4   
   > E-cores.  If you want the best performance, there are certainly a   
   > number of microarchitectures by AMD, Apple, ARM, Intel, and Qualcomm   
   > that compete for that spot and show fascinating feats in clock rate   
   > and instructions per cycle (IPC), and the cores in the Pentium 8505   
   > are not far behind; newer microarchitectures are better.  If you want   
   > something small, maybe look for the ARM Cortex M0 or one of the small   
   > RISC-V cores.   
   Thanks Anton. May I ask if you have a particular CPU that you find   
   pleasurable to use in your daily work?   
      
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