Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
There won't be any "fusing" of the cores,that's not possible. But AMD is not disclosing all the details such as ,why they now call the 2 pipelines Agen?There was never in the past such a term in their diagrams.It's has always been AGU and this was paired with 1 ALU,with separate schedulers.Now we have unified scheduler and this new Agen unit ,outside of L/S unit that is also on the diagram(standing separately too).And finally we have 2 additional integer units in the FPU .SO if you want to count it you can say its 2+2+1(2) in terms of integer execution power.

edit: the only "fusing" that may happen is in terms of FPU execution,when one core can use both FMAC units for itself.
In current architecture our pipelines are shared between ALU and AGU. With bulldozer we actually break them out and make them dedicated, 2 for each.

Different engineers write things different ways. It is not that "AMD is changing what we call them" but that an engineer wrote it that way. Marketing tends to refrain from editing technical slides as they know more than us in that area.