Consider what a simple circuit the WIZ is! And yet we have a fully-functioning microprocessor.

Above is a complete WIZ of minimal functionality. The drawing shows almost every gate in the circuit. It's about 3000 transistors.

There is virtually no complexity here. The Frontend circuit is very small and simple. Any complexity that might occur would be contained in individual backend IP blocks, which are diverse and optional.

Simplicity is the keyword.

Speed is a byproduct of that simplicity. As each instruction takes as much time as it takes, instructions which operate only on registers, like boolean logic, shifts, branching tests (skip), etc, would attain a speed greater than 100 GHz.

Only arithmetic operations like add and multiply would slow it down. But with shorter busses and simpler access to them, we might still exceed the competition's speed.

With a huge number of WIZes on a WIZ chip, and given that the OS tests each before use, manufacturability goes through the roof. Yield becomes almost irrelevant. WIZ chips full of WIZes can be manufactured in a dusty fab. (See chapter "OS Services").

And there are many other unique advantages to our paradigm, to be discussed in succeeding chapters.

Thank you for listening!

Steven Swift
Chief Wizard of WIZ, First Zozzer of ZOZ