Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
by kllrnohj on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:25PM
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Your analogy was so close! It's Apple comes along and makes an 8 cylinder engine. Since, you know, the other CPUs are 4-wide decode and Apple's M1 is 8-wide decode :)
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Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor
by ben-schaaf on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:23PM
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Zen 3 is effectively 8 wide with their micro-op cache. Intel similarly has been 6 wide for ages.