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Everything I've read/heard is that it's superscalar. They've gone from 7 wide to 10 wide with Carmel. That's a lot of width to schedule and/or waste. The other
by CalChris 7y ago
Everything I've read/heard is that it's superscalar. They've gone from 7 wide to 10 wide with Carmel. That's a lot of width to schedule and/or waste.
The other big difference is that Denver uses a HW ARM decoder vs Transmeta's SW decoder. That was smart since they could license the IP from ARM whereas Intel would fight them every step of the way.
- gpderetta 7y agoIt seems that we had the same discussion 2 years ago on HN :). I can't find any authoritative source so I'll concede. The guys at RWT are pretty sure it is an VLIW though.
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