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01 Strategy · the hardware

Hardware

Three names the instruction pages use.

  1. Register (Z / scalar)

    Temporary slots that hold numbers.

  2. ZA (za0…)

    The SME matrix accumulate tile; FMOPA writes into it.

  3. Compute unit

    The hardware that does the multiply-add; the instruction schedules it.

At SVL = 128 bits, a Z vector holds four numbers.