or any one of the other really beefy CPU architectures out there. Superscalars are great for general purpose computing, but their performance per watt dollar is abysmal in comparison to a DSP.

Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann ... Week 8: Present the progress in previous week and describe how the problems faced during last week were solved.

[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC ...