Anandtech is really not the place for high level discussion on microprocessor architecture.
In Anandtech, they just pretend being technical but they often get it wrong, not only on microprocessor architecture by the way.
Johnson wrote a seminal book on microprocessor superscalar architecture in 1991.
Open64 is a free, open source, optimizing compiler for the Itanium and x86-64 microprocessor architectures.
Besides just kernel design, the debate branched into several other topics, such as which microprocessor architecture would win out over others in the future.
Transputers were a fairly new and innovative microprocessor architecture designed for parallel processing at the time.
Jon may be best known as the author of "Inside the Machine," a popular, accessible resource on microprocessor architecture, published in 2007.
He started his career with Intel working on the microprocessor architecture of their new generation computing platforms.
The Intel 80860 he described as a good implementation of a poorly thought-out microprocessor architecture.
The multicellular microprocessor architecture is rather new and hasn't been tested in many applications yet.