That was a fabulous article. Two things popped out at me that made me literally stop and pause, re-read, and re-read a couple more times to make sure I wasn't misreading it.
The width and depth of the instruction pipelines.
8 wide, 630 deep??
That's just... insane. When they said it was a 'humongous' architecture, they weren't kidding. I would give murbot's right nut to learn about the bus design that lets them do that at scale, and his other nut to know what the speculation algorithm looks like.
This isn't a fluke, this is a seriously capable architecture that is getting its first taste of open road.
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