Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
IPC will go down?Are you serious ?
Having more underutilized units is bad.Having less units that are constantly fed and always have something to do(the part you made bold) will make the "IPC",the relative and mostly meaningless number (that is 99% of the time <=2), higher. That's the whole point of this machine.
IPC can go down if frequency is upped for same performance.

If they double pumped ALU with a double frequency, that could help to use the 4 wide front end.

let me hope for that