AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

[Dresdenboy]

However if you just want more horsepowers, you can try to build in a turbo charger/intercooler setup instead of the +4 cylinders. That would be the rough equivalent to Sandy's hyper-pipelined FPU ;-)

Hmm.. with all these design options there are also several ways to implement a decode/dispatch unit for Bulldozer, which might not only decode up to 4 x86 ops per cycle but - if some requirements are met - even up to 8 ops per cycle. I'm thinking of the fast/slow path concept and also double pumping here. A fast path (for simple/double decode ops) could be used twice per base clock cycle if it's that fast.