Makes sense. A 386 had 275,000 transistors. You can see how instruction decode stuff for a more complex x86 instruction could be a reasonable fraction of that.

Makes sense. A 386 had 275,000 transistors. You can see how instruction decode stuff for a more complex x86 instruction could be a reasonable fraction of that. ArrowLake is 17.8 billion. Even if you divide by the core count instruction decode obviously isn’t much of that.