Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E...
by mhh__ on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:36PM
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> Don't waste transistors on them just program an execution unit to execute that instruction on the fly, etc.
Possible, but the "x86" part is already a big decoder in front of a murky processor underneath so this is already what the CPU does - if you removed the reference to an FPGA, rewriting old x86 instructions in terms of "new" ones is microcode.
Possible, but the "x86" part is already a big decoder in front of a murky processor underneath so this is already what the CPU does - if you removed the reference to an FPGA, rewriting old x86 instructions in terms of "new" ones is microcode.