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by picofarad 3 days ago
Check out the Intel Quark, it was a <50mhz x86 that was resized and re-done on a smaller feature fab and runs on a watch battery (its a bios battery), a full x86 SOC!

I dont know what feats of engineering went into it, it is discontinued, but it is a very tiny x86

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The Quark core lives on as a control processor inside Intel CPUs - https://pbx.sh/intelme_talk.pdf