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divisions, regardless of integer or floating point, are usually NOT pipelined though

I haven't seen any cpu with a fully pipelined division, but division units are at least partially pipelined in recent-ish cpus. They usually can start a new division well before the previous one has stopped executing.

ALUs in Recent Apple cpus can actually start a new division every other cycle (in addition to having an abnormally low latency), which is very impressive.

> ALUs in Recent Apple cpus can actually start a new division every other cycle (in addition to having an abnormally low latency)

That's indeed impressive.

I'll argue that we're definitely capable of making fully pipelined divisions, it's just that it's usually not worth the PPA.

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