Correction: Ok, the IBM z/Architecture line of CPU:s are clearly a different breed. In later generations they do use instruction cracking (i think that they wer

Correction: Ok, the IBM z/Architecture line of CPU:s are clearly a different breed. In later generations they do use instruction cracking (i think that they were inspired by the x86 success), and insane pipelines: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/History-of-IBM-Z-Mainframe-Processors-Jacobi-Webb/24136f6af9090f146b226ac6d41549af9d9b85f7/figure/0 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/History-of-IBM-Z-Mainf... I struggle to find a categorization for the z15 - other than "massive".