[rtoway]

Isn't x86 assembly not directly executed by the CPU? IIRC it's turned into microcode instructions. I could be wrong though

[umanwizard]

It’s turned into uops... by the CPU.

(And most instructions correspond to 1 or a few uops in a straightforward way).

[tux3]

The ASM (text) that you write is converted into machine code, and that is directly accepted and decoded by the hardware (which may turn it into Mops and uops internally, but that's an implementation detail!)

[zeckalpha]

Yes