Intel Nova Lake Chips May Unify AVX-512 Across E-Cores And P-Cores
While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches revealed that Nova Lake would have not only AVX-512, but in fact the latest AVX10.2 version of it, as well as APX and MOVRS. But now, according to notorious Intel leaker Jaykihn, that information definitely applies to both P-core and E-core architectures, which is great news, as it means that developers will actually be able to use the new instructions on the consumer chips.
Let's back up a bit. Intel CPUs use the x86 instruction set, named after the 1978 Intel 8086 processor from which it was originally derived. This instruction set has seen dozens of 'Instruction Set Extensions' from both Intel and AMD over the decades, and the two have an extensive and deep cross-licensing...
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