Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
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.
Being an absolute noob, could someone explain this to me.

How many pipelines are on the P2 (x4 for arguments sake), how do they feed the ALU & AGU normally.

To me it looks like bulldozer has cut down by 1 ALU&AGU per 'core'.