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masklinn on Jan 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qual...

Fetched & decoded instructions per cycle.

Parent is wrong though, the A7 has 3-wide cores (and dual-core like previous chips)

servitor on Jan 30, 2018 [–]

The Cyclone core has 6 decoders. It can decode, rename and retire up to 6 instructions per cycle[1].

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarch...

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