Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)
by nradov on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:52AM
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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
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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.