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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 221.450.0%Dec 11 3:59 PM EST
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To: EricRR who wrote (6)7/6/2000 8:00:22 PM
From: ScumbriaRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Ratbert,

The patent is basically for processors which use two instruction sets, and the examples include something which is VLIW -like. This patent could be related to sledgehammer.

Nothing fancy here. Most x86 CPU's have dual instruction sets (X86 and the native RISC-like instructions.) Athlon partially predecodes some instruction bits on their way into the cache, and creates a "longer instruction word".

I don't see any reason to think this is a new technology for Sledgehammer.

Scumbria
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