>if we step back a few months to Hot Chips 2024, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all gave presentations on high performance cores there. All three were eight-wide, mea

>if we step back a few months to Hot Chips 2024, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all gave presentations on high performance cores there. All three were eight-wide, meaning their pipelines could handle up to eight micro-ops per cycle in a sustained fashion. >Zen 5 is the only core out of the three that couldn’t give eight decode slots to a single thread. If you add Apple and ARM. That is the only core out of the five. I am thinking if Zen 6 will be something different. Right now Intel is iterating like crazy. And Zen 6 is still quite far off.