anon (spam.delete.delete@this.this.spam.com) on November 4, 2016 6:12 am wrote:
> Yes, but I still don't see any reason why that means the A10 is 6 wide.
>
> If Sandy/Ivy Bridge is 6 wide then that doesn't mean Haswell/Broadwell is 6 wide.

Neither are 6-wide using the standard definition.

> I mean we can probably rule out that the A10 is less than 6 wide, but >6 still seems
> more likely than =6 so I'm waiting for you to give me a reason to believe it's 6 wide.

Anandtech claims the A7 can execute 4 ALU ops plus 2 FP ops indefinitely. So that makes it clearly 6-way. Haswell/etc can do 4 at most, so it's 4-way.

In terms of issue width the same article claims 9-way for A7 (compared to effectively 7-way for Haswell and 8-way for Cortex-A57).

Wilco