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'''K9''' was a planned  [[microarchitecture]] developed by [[AMD]] as a successor to {{\\|K8}}. The K9 codename might cover multiple projects at AMD. A deep pipeline design led by Mitch Alsup as Chief Architect, another one intended to bring massive parallelism<ref>Anand Lal Shimpi, [https://www.anandtech.com/show/2229/5 Why is Barcelona late? - AMD - The Road Ahead], anandtech.com. Retrieved on December 1, 2018</ref> and finally, using K9 as a codename for dual-core {{\\|K8}}.
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'''K9''' was a planned  [[microarchitecture]] developed by [[AMD]] as a successor to {{\\|K8}}. AMD intended to bring massive parallelism to K9. The microarchitecture was reportedly scrapped after 6 months worth of work. The intended features and the exact reasons AMD cancelled K9 remain unknown.
 
 
The whole set of intended features and the exact reasons AMD cancelled K9 remain unknown.
 
 
 
== Deep pipeline design ==
 
 
 
The design was led by Mitch Alsup as Chief Architect and attempted to directly compete with [[Intel]] [[netburst|NetBurst]]. It featured a deep pipeline and an advanced trace cache.
 
 
 
According to Alsup, it was designed to be close to 95% of original {{\\|K8}} IPC but reach 5GHz frequency in a 35 nm process. At the time of cancellation most of the logic was running in SPICE at 5GHz and majority of the layout was done.
 
 
 
The K9 pipeline was dual-quad issue. It was described by Alsup as: "K9 fetched 8 instructions every other cycle and made 2 branch predictions associated with 3 next fetch addresses every other cycle. K9 issued 4 instructions per cycle and took 2 cycles to issue a fetch width."
 
 
 
Reportedly, the design was cancelled due to leakage current problems amplified by necessity to embrace the multi-core era. K9's DDR2 SDRAM controller was later used in {{\\|K8}} Rev F and its northbridge technology got put in {{\\|K8}} Rev G.
 
 
 
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codenameK9 +
designerAMD +
full page nameamd/microarchitectures/k9 +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
instruction set architecturex86-64 +
manufacturerAMD +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
nameK9 +
process65 nm (0.065 μm, 6.5e-5 mm) +