Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Can you see the effects of the above quote in the bulldozer module diagram ?
No. I can't see actually.
Quote Originally Posted by Mechromancer View Post
AMD always pimped the Bulldozer out to be a single-threaded maniac. The only way I see that happening is if an ENTIRE module (2 cores and all) can process a single thread by itself. Two real cores working as one to chew through a single thread should be interesting. The Integer and floating point performance of a single module should make that interesting.
Guys, you are dreaming too much. While it is possible that one core may help to another with execution some instructions when the the second core is saturated (which is really not a common case - isn't it informal who always says that 4-way execution is too much a for single thread ) but it really not what "speculative threading" is.

Here is some interesting:
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news...-bulldozer.ars
Right now, AMD is referring to each integer scheduler and the pipelines associated with it as a "core," making each Bulldozer module "dual-core." I think this terminology is a huge mistake, and I hope AMD rethinks it.
If this is the case, then wonder how does AMD planing to be competative with its 4-"core" in the high-end against 4-core Sandy Bridge/Ive Bridge in the main-stream.