Parallelism Topology - Multiplicity
Superscalar Core
Multiple issue slots live inside one core before scaling out to more cores.
CPU Exemplars With This Coordinate
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Intel Pentium Pro
1995 - intel
A hinge point for x86: instructions become internal uops, speculation becomes central, and the CPU starts behaving like a dynamic scheduling machine.
ARCHITECTURAL_ESTIMATEIntel Pentium 4 Northwood
2002 - intel
The deep-pipeline frequency wager: a CPU technology organized around high clocks, aggressive prediction, and large penalties for wrong futures.