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ATI/AMD used VLIW-based TeraScale sometime in 2007-2011 [1], although some stories claim it started even earlier [2], but in any case they later dropped it in f
by egorpv 4y ago
ATI/AMD used VLIW-based TeraScale sometime in 2007-2011 [1], although some stories claim it started even earlier [2], but in any case they later dropped it in favor of RISC-based GCN. And I'm not sure if Nvidia ever had anything VLIW-based at all.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeraScale_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeraScale_(microarchitecture)
[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-preview-amd-architects-for-compute/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-...