[mcbridematt]

Intel tried this with the Quark core, which was discontinued in 2019:

Compare the Quark Core Block Diagram: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr...

with that of the 486 (Figure 3-2): http://datasheets.chipdb.org/Intel/x86/486/manuals/27302101....

[userbinator]

A lot of the Quark documentation was basically copied-pasted from the 486 one, and 486 replaced with Quark. There was some rather unusual phrasing and anachronisms as a result.