This article shows a simple example of a loop that was not vectorized by the Intel® C++ Compiler due to possible data dependencies, but which has now been vectorized using the Intel® Advanced Vector ...

Back in June, y-Cruncher developer Alexander Yee criticized Intel's decision to remove AVX-512 (Advanced Vector Extensions 512) from its 12th Gen (Alder Lake) and newer CPUs, calling it "a huge step ...

Intel AVX-512 instructions deliver a comprehensive set of functionality and higher performance than Intel® AVX and Intel® AVX2 family of instructions (see section 1.2 here for a complete description).

In context: Advanced vector extensions are a type of "single instruction, multiple data" extension to the x86 instruction set architecture, implemented by Intel and AMD in modern CPUs. These ...

Regular readers will recall that we wrote about Intel's X86S proposal awhile back. That was merely in the concept stages, but it's an idea to shed a lot of the legacy cruft from x86-compatible ...