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Intel's Redwood Cove: Baby Steps Are Still Steps
Intel’s Meteor Lake chip signaled a change in Intel’s mobile strategy, moving away from the monolithic designs that had characterized Intel’s client designs for more than a decade…
Prior Intel architectures already had a next-page prefetcher that detects if a program is accessing data close to the end of a 4 KB page. WatermarkedInteger:68 / 96, likely 17 / 24 per schedulerFP: ~83 / (64 SQ + 64 NSQ)Load QueueStatically PartitionedWatermarked~107 / 136Store QueueStatically PartitionedStatically PartitionedMicro-Op Queue / Loop BufferStatically PartitionedStatically PartitionedOp CacheStatically PartitionedCompetitively SharedReturn StackStatically Partitioned (10/20)Duplicated (2×32)Both Intel and AMD watermark many of their structures, in contrast to the Pentium 4 where major structures including schedulers were statically partitioned. Granite Rapids is the codename for Intel’s next generation Xeon Scalable server CPUs, so unfortunately I won’t see those changes in a Meteor Lake client platform.
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