Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
I'm surprised this hasn't appeared here yet:
apples-cyclone-microarchitecture-detailedIt's as suspected an absolute monster. It's a very wide OOO machine with 6 instruction decode per cycle.
Clock for clock it's as fast as anything Intel make. Pretty astonishing given that's Apple's first 64 bit core design.
I wanna see what they come up with next!