Unfortunately I both didn't have enough time and details (some things were to guess) to create the promised architecture diagram. However, now the missing … more
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An interesting register file and more FPU related stuff
@ 2009-05-11 – 09:10:36 pm
Recently I didn't find much time to browse patents, but this is, what I found at least: a multi width mode FPU (20080209185), and a way how wider … more -
Updated Bulldozer core microarchitecture diagram
@ 2009-08-21 – 11:18:48 am
I finished RC1, which you can find below: Have fun studying it. I'm sure it will cause questions and discussions. My next step will be to provide some … more -
CMT, SMT and Clusters
@ 2009-09-06 – 11:11:43 pm
[ ... ] core CPU), which is different. Some people argue, that any multithreading is a simultaneous execution of threads per se so any kind of ... more -
My try to predict AMD's bulldozer core µarchitecture
@ 2009-04-15 – 10:37:15 am
It's time for my first blog post after publishing my thoughts in several forums for years. I want to start with a graphic (first published on planet3dnow) … more -
Faster adaption to ISA extensions
@ 2009-07-12 – 12:30:00 am
[ ... ] of competitor's changes. The document also describes scenarios related to instruction streams utilizing different ISAs (could be CPU/GPU). more -
Automatic processor overclocking
@ 2009-09-23 – 12:17:35 pm
That's the title of a new AMD patent (WO2009114141A1), which has been published last week. Because of that I'm doing some out of order processing here … more -
Some Magny Cours details and some thoughts about Thuban and the "T"
@ 2010-02-05 – 07:45:21 am
[ ... ] (via CPU driver then) and in a variant doing that in hardware on the chip. A very likely candidate for this is Llano, because at least one of the ... more -
CMT or SMT to be present in speculative Bulldozer core?
@ 2009-09-10 – 12:20:39 am
I wrote about CMT and SMT and how these architectures differ. But it's as least as interesting to find out, which variant actually might come with Bulldozer. … more -
Sandy Bridge and related AVX details appeared
@ 2009-09-25 – 12:22:32 pm
[ ... ] You should read most, especially Mark Buxton's responses. So far, the AVX execution units have been ... more