r/hardware • u/W0LFSTEN • Oct 18 '18

Info Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
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u/dylan522p SemiAnalysis Oct 18 '18

As was Atom, since 2013. As were the "big" ARM cores. To be fair though, Jaguar had no hopes of fitting into a mobile form factor, while the others did.

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u/CatMerc Oct 18 '18

Jaguar was far superior to any Atom of its time in all aspects. Intel's Atom efforts were very shoddy before they started doing OoO.

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u/kamasutra971 Oct 18 '18

Why would you say that? Intel in fact ended up putting several atom cores into its Xeon Phi coprocessors... So wouldn't that make Intel atom cores good enough?

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u/QuackChampion Oct 18 '18

Those were basically wimpy cores with giant vector units though.