Ask Patch Nolan what a specification means and the answer usually starts with what it does not mean. The Chips section exists because processor marketing has become close to unreadable: core counts that are not comparable across families, clock speeds that appear only under conditions nobody meets, and generation numbers that move sideways. These articles work through what each figure actually controls, what changes when it doubles, and where the number stops predicting anything a person would notice. Nothing here is a benchmark result, because these articles run no benchmarks. They explain published figures, name the source and revision, and stop there.
