Quote Originally Posted by danielkza View Post
Because BD needs to feed all those integer cores somehow. We know prefetching is getting improvements, but decoding needs to improve as well to keep up with everything else.
So, not to talk out of school, but I did ask one of our design engineers about the ability of the shared front end to keep two integer cores fed and he had absolutely no concern because of things that are done to improve the front end.

Can't say any more beyond that because a.) it is not public info and b.) I don't really know enough about how those things work to accurately describe them.

In my mind this is not a concern of the engineering team. After all it is a completely new design. If they had taken the front end off of an existing product it might be more of an issue, but as I understand it, that has not happened.