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		sigterm on Aug 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse in... Source? I don't think it's necessary for signal to propagate through the entire chip within a clock cycle.

marcosdumay on Aug 11, 2014 [–]

It's not, and it does not on the fastest chips around.

But you'll be in quite a bad situation if it does not propagate through at least an entire ALU and register file within less than a cycle. Not an impossible situation, but a bad one.

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