In Software Optimization Guide for the AMD Zen4 Microarchitecture, the terminology are explained as follows:
It seems that the Dispatch stage is before the Issue stage, which differs from this diagram.
However, according to the content in this article, the dispatch should follow closely the decode stage, which agree with the AMD Terminology.
I tend to think that the process should be:
For AMD EPYC series CPUs:
Am I right?
When we say port in CPU micro-architecture, does it correspond to the issuing or the dispatching?
For Intel Xeon series CPUs:
Intel uses opposite terminology from most of the rest of the computer architecture world.
In Intel terminology for out-of-order exec CPUs:
For most computer-architecture textbooks, papers, and discussion of non-x86 CPUs, the two terms are simply swapped.
It seems AMD doesn't use Intel's terminology either, so it's an Intel thing, not an x86 thing.