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by mbitsnbites 873 days ago
Correction: Ok, the IBM z/Architecture line of CPU:s are clearly a different breed. In later generations they do use instruction cracking (i think that they were inspired by the x86 success), and insane pipelines:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/History-of-IBM-Z-Mainf...

I struggle to find a categorization for the z15 - other than "massive".