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by mmaniac 814 days ago
That's not how it works for either Intel or AMD's current designs. Both use an L1 I$ which consists of encoded instructions, while adding a small uop cache (sometimes called L0) for recently decoded instructions.[1][2]

Intel's Netburst architecture stored decoded instruction sequences in its L1 cache, which Intel called a trace cache.[3] This didn't work out too well, so Intel reverted to a conventional L1 cache with the successor Merom[4] and introduced the uop cache shortly after with Sandy Bridge[5].

[1]https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/12/02/popping-the-hood-on-go...

[2]https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/11/05/amds-zen-4-part-1-fron...

[3]https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/06/17/intels-netburst-failur...

[4]https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/02/05/intels-dunnington-core...

[5]https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/08/04/sandy-bridge-setting-i...