Dresdenboys' blog: AMD Bulldozer - Patent based research

[Hornet331]

This has me wondering if Intel is going down the CMT route as well when AVX comes on the scene .

If AMDs CTM is what i think it is, intel already walks that path with terascale and mitosis (speculative threading), but its still some time away.

If amd can relase such a architecture with Bulldozer we we'll see quite a nice speedup on multithreaded workloads, wonder if they will include speculative threading as well.

Also i couldn't resit to smirk when i read that:

Some of the mentioned patent applications also state, that the 4 way decoders could decode more than 4 instructions per cycle if there are both a micro coded and a fastpath instruction (of different threads) in one decoding path

Macro-OPs Fusion anyone?