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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by da_chicken on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:28AM (#16430082)
Probably because it ran on PowerPC. If I remember my systems design class from 20 years ago, RISC makes implementing or scaling multiprocessing easier.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by nradov on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:52AM (#16430299)
Intel processors essentially are RISC now internally. They just expose more complex instructions as a higher level API.
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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by JetSetWilly on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:56PM (#16431911)
They are not RISC internally. In fact I read an interview with an intel engineer that an intel cou has >10,000 uops. That’s not in any sense reduced!

And it doesn’t make sense to apply the term ”risc” to internal CPU design anyway.

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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by GabeRicard on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:06AM (#16445358)
It ran pretty well on Intel also. And it originally ran on AT&T Hobbit, whatever the hell that was.
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