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2815:Cypress PSoC
2472:Simultaneous
2289:Out-of-order
1921:Neuromorphic
1802:Architecture
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1753:Zeno machine
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2841:Coprocessor
2696:Coprocessor
2577:performance
2499:Cooperative
2489:Speculative
2449:Distributed
2408:Superscalar
2393:Instruction
2361:Parallelism
2334:Speculative
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2038:Instruction
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1045:Intel 80186
774:Intel 80286
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3109:Functional
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3062:Data cache
3035:Components
3016:Multi-core
3004:Core count
2494:Preemptive
2398:Pipelining
2381:Bit-serial
2324:Wide-issue
2269:Structural
2191:Tilera ISA
2157:MicroBlaze
2127:ETRAX CRIS
2022:Comparison
1867:Load–store
1847:Endianness
1609:2023-06-05
1539:2019-06-27
1439:2012-06-11
1339:(see also
1318:References
1276:Zilog Z280
1233:DEC LSI-11
1171:Ricoh 5A22
1040:Intel 8088
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2122:DEC Alpha
2100:Power ISA
1916:Cognitive
1723:Universal
1582:5 October
1576:"History"
1560:5 October
1495:CRC Press
1407:"HP 2116"
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1135:Panafacom
1002:System/36
965:Honeywell
898:EnSilica
715:zero page
710:Zilog Z80
618:Panafacom
473:registers
377:precision
314:precision
3328:Datapath
3021:Manycore
2993:variable
2831:Hardware
2467:Temporal
2147:OpenRISC
1842:Cellular
1832:Dataflow
1825:modified
1360:Archived
1311:CD audio
1285:See also
1227:MCP-1600
1149:Renesas
1083:Motorola
1066:Lockheed
1009:Infineon
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921:Ferranti
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3425:Digital
3420:Boolean
3318:Counter
3217:Quantum
2978:512-bit
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2796:on chip
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2256:Hazards
2142:Itanium
2137:Unicore
2095:PowerPC
1820:Harvard
1780:Pointer
1775:Counter
1733:Quantum
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1145:Renesas
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