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They are not used because with transistors that keep getting smaller but that don't get much faster, it's better to just have more add units in parallel than it
by Tuna-Fish 10y ago
They are not used because with transistors that keep getting smaller but that don't get much faster, it's better to just have more add units in parallel than it is to run the ones you have faster. A modern Intel CPU effectively has 4 add units to the 2 of the P4.