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Re:Intel is still top dog: ships 3x more CPUs than AMD and A... by bryanlarsen on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:49PM (#39781091)
A "CISC to RISC decoder" isn't properly a decoder, it's a translator. What they had in the 80's were proper decoders: instruction's in, enable and clock lines out.
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Re:Intel is still top dog: ships 3x more CPUs than AMD and A... by ahartmetz on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:09PM (#39781391)
I don't want to argue about that. My point is just that the size (transistor count) and performance differences were massive at the time, like 2-3x the performance at 1/4th or so of the size.
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