Ah excellent, I see Spectre and Meltdown have motivated my fellow software folks to take a peek at the internals of CPU architecture :)<p>Here's a great intro for beginners: <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/hennessy/978-0-12-383872-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/henness...</a>