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2 hours ago

> Many CPUs, like the AMD Zen CPUs, have more execution units that can do additions, than those that can do multiplications

And the reasons for that it takes way more transistors to implement a fast rabbit^W multiplier than to implement a fast adder, so adding an execution unit that cannot multiply is easier to warrant than adding one that can.

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