Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Anyone use Intel's 386 processor from 1985, the first 32-bit x86? To improve ...
Anyone use Intel's 386 processor from 1985, the first 32-bit x86? To improve performance, it preloaded instructions into a 16-byte prefetch queue (highlighted in red). Why does such a small queue take up so much of the chip? Let's look under the microscope at its complicated circuitry... 1/N
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