128-bit floating point numbers on new AMD quad-core Barcelona?

[tarheel_hax0r]

The "width" question is back again.

Here's today's Slashdot summary:

Inside AMD's Phenom Architecture

...The architecture supports wider floating-point units, can fully retire three long instructions per cycle, and has virtual machine optimizations...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/14/140237

Here's the InfoWorld article:

Inside AMD's Phenom And Opteron Quad-Core Architectures

...Earlier processors had 64-bit floating-point execution units. Because of 10h, AMD will be able to equip Phenom and Barcelona with 128-bit floating-point units, if it so chooses. The wider design will double the performance of floating-point vector operations...

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199501467

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