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People keep overselling it. A single ISA for everything from the tiniest microcontroller to server class cores sounds like a nice idea if you don't have...

[PerformanceExpert]

The fact that the ISA is open is way overhyped, often by people who have no understanding about the difference between ISA and implementation. The fact...

[PerformanceExpert]

If that's the case then it's a basic core similar to their ancient P6600 (3-wide, 7 exec ports). I expected a bit more progress in 6.5 years......

[PerformanceExpert]

It says 8 fetch, so possibly 8 decode too. Generally you have 1.5-2x as many execution ports than decoders. But width doesn't say much about performance....