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> And yet, if someone tried to sell a server CPU today that was not pipelined, not OOO, and didn't have branch prediction, it would absolutely tank in the marke
by ben509 8y ago
> And yet, if someone tried to sell a server CPU today that was not pipelined, not OOO, and didn't have branch prediction, it would absolutely tank in the marketplace.
You could sell it as a niche product for high security applications, since OOO execution is a nasty side-channel.
- whack 8y agoThat's an interesting idea. A "so simple it can't have bugs" design would never win over the mainstream-market, but it might be able to find a niche among extremely security-conscious users. This might be a great project for the open-source community to take on.