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superscalar Last modified: Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Refers to microprocessor architectures that enable more than one instruction to be executed per clock cycle. Nearly all modern microprocessors, including the Pentium, PowerPC, Alpha, and SPARC microprocessors are superscalar.