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In other words, it’s better architecture. If anything this makes it seem more impressive to me.

• amelius 6y ago
  No, it's the same architecture but with different parameters. It's like the difference between the situation where every car uses 4 cylinders, and then Apple comes along and makes a car with 5 cylinders.
  • kllrnohj 6y ago
    Your analogy was so close! It's Apple comes along and makes an 8 cylinder engine. Since, you know, the other CPUs are 4-wide decode and Apple's M1 is 8-wide decode :)
    • ben-schaaf 6y ago
      Zen 3 is effectively 8 wide with their micro-op cache. Intel similarly has been 6 wide for ages.