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May 11, 2022 at 2:04 comment added Peter Cordes Anyway, interesting so I'm not downvoting, but also not upvoting due to not mentioning actual MAC speed on an 8051 available in 1989, or release dates for either feature or chip you mention.
May 11, 2022 at 2:03 comment added Peter Cordes I think the question was looking for chips that actually existed in 1989, not just modern implementations of ISAs or chips that existed then. Those are interesting side-notes, but for things like adding 32-bit multiplier HW into 8051, if that counts, then we're pretty close to modern x86 counting since it evolved out of 8088 / 8086, but now has 512-bit wide SIMD-integer stuff like vpmaddwd zmm0, zmm0 / vpaddd zmm1, zmm0 to do 32x 16-bit multiply-accumulate operations in parallel, with a throughput of 1 cycle on Skylake-X / Ice Lake (and room to load to get sum-of-squares of an array.)
May 10, 2022 at 10:48 comment added Raffzahn Jup, there's much hidden in micro controllers, not at least due the fact that some of their tasks do quite well benefit from MAC operations to generate/follow characteristics.
May 9, 2022 at 22:05 history answered Michael Graf CC BY-SA 4.0