none (none.delete@this.none.com) on November 2, 2016 3:57 am wrote:
> anon (spam.delete.delete@this.this.spam.com) on November 1, 2016 1:00 pm wrote:
> [...]
> > > You would open your hears then, because I am not the first
> > > to claim that Haswell is 8-wide and Cyclone is 6-wide.
> > >
> > > http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/#multipleissuesuperscalar
> > >
> > > http://vrworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/VISC5.jpg
> > >
> > > https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01193178/document
> > >
> > > And so on...
> >
> > Don't use VISC marketing. Please. It's such a trainwreck.
> > Remember this? http://images.anandtech.com/doci/10025/Presentation%20%2810%29.jpg
> >
> > I mean I respect what they are doing and I'm pretty sure they know
> > what they're doing, but their marketing department? God no.
>
> Now that they've been bought by Intel their marketing should improve or they'll just
> disappear. I wonder if Intel got them only for some patents.

Intel did not buy them for their awesome technology. It was much more retarded politics from what I've heard, and we probably won't see anything out of it.

The purchase prices was pretty close to what the VCs put in.

David