AMD would have been far ahead of the game if they'd made 1 big ALU, 1 big FPU, and 1-3 little ALUs. They'd have been competitive on single-thread performance wh

AMD would have been far ahead of the game if they'd made 1 big ALU, 1 big FPU, and 1-3 little ALUs. They'd have been competitive on single-thread performance while getting a big boost in multithreaded performance without all the complexity of SMT.