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A superscalar is a CPU architecture that implements a form of parallelism on a single chip, thereby allowing the system as a whole to run much faster than it would otherwise be able to at a given clock speed. A superscalar architecture allows a uniprocessor to execute two or more scalar operations in parallel. A superscalar processor is sort of a mixture of the scalar and vector architecture. Each instruction processes one data item, but there are multiple processing units so that multiple instructions can be processing separate data items at the same time.

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