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Re:The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up by protomyth on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:07PM (#9956895)
I though most of them switch when the whole GPGPU movement happened?
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Re:The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up by jcranmer on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:25PM (#9957021)
AMD is a VLIW architecture, NVidia is not.

Correction: AMD GPUs were VLIW when I took a class on GPGPU in 2011. Apparently, AMD subsequently switched from VLIW: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next>.

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