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Do today chips still have die space for old instruction set? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

what is microcode is, then?

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Do today chips still have die space for old instruction set? (alien.top)
 

This is just a nitpicking question. Do Intel chips still have some space/transistors dedicated to SSE3? If they do, why can't they implement SSE3 by other, more powerful instrutions (like AVX) to save die space?

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Do today chips still have die space for old instruction set? (alien.top)
 

This is just a nitpicking question. Do Intel chips still have some space/transistors dedicated to SSE3? If they do, why can't they implement SSE3 by other, more powerful instrutions (like AVX) to save die space?