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Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by kens on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:22PM (#48521057)
Even by the time of the Pentium, they had moved to much more complicated adders like Kogge-Stone. I wrote about it here: https://www.righto.com/2025/01/pentium-carry-lookahead-rever...
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Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by B1FF_PSUVM on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:35PM (#48522552)
Do you have anything on those TRW floating point chips that used to titillate junior engineers in trade mag advertisements before that?
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