Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Intel's Pentium processor (1993). Looking inside the chip , I found a large, ...
Intel's Pentium processor (1993). Looking inside the chip , I found a large, complicated circuit just to multiply by 3 (lower right). Why? The Pentium uses a fast technique to multiply 64-bit numbers and it turns out that 3 is a special case. Let's take a closer look at multiplication... 1/N
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