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by ritter2a 2124 days ago
Well, there is the Hennessy&Patterson book, "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach". The newer editions include modern features and follow industry's developments.

This will of course not be able to tell you all the black magic that is happening inside AMD's and Intel's newest designs. The software optimization manuals for these processors do include some more interesting insights, but especially the Intel ones are not the most entertaining read...