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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by cedivad on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @07:43AM (#16264775)
Whats a 6-wide core?
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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by ethbro on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:32AM (#16265088)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor
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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by masklinn on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:05AM (#16264896)
Fetched & decoded instructions per cycle.

Parent is wrong though, the A7 has 3-wide cores (and dual-core like previous chips)

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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by servitor on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:23AM (#16265021)
The Cyclone core has 6 decoders. It can decode, rename and retire up to 6 instructions per cycle[1].

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarch...

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