Even then they are "working" independently. It's not a pipeline that passes the baby from one to the next. That's just plain parallelism. Either way it would do nothing to latency and so would not get the current one done any sooner.

That's not a 9 stage pipeline, it's 9 separate single stage pipelines.

Massively parallel Baby Processing Units (BPUs)

If you implement QBPUs (Quantum Baby Processing Units), you could theoretically produce infinite babies. Of course, we're perpetually 10 years away from working QBPUs.

That's throughput, not latency.

Most companies have more things they want to do then they can do in the next 6 months. So if you increase throughput without latency, you can still get more of those projects done. Even if you're still doing them all inefficiently.

It's ugly, but "don't hire more people because we'll be less efficient" often runs into this ugly "but we need more total output, not more efficiency" wall.

Yes, that's exactly the point of pipelining.

Sweet. The baby-in-a-month problem is reduced to assembling and priming a nine-stage pipeline in a month!