The AVX-512 instruction set has had a bizarre history. Originally introduced with Intel's Xeon Phi processors based on the "Knights Landing" design, it later found its way into the company's server ...

Single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) instructions that can process multiple data with one instruction greatly contribute to the speedup of CPU operation. However, since SIMD instructions require a ...

When Intel launches its 10nm Cannon Lake (CNL) and Ice Lake (ICL) processors for consumers it is now expected that they will come packing Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 512 instruction compatibility ...

The upcoming AMD Zen 5 CPU architecture is set to bring a major boost in performance for certain types of computing tasks, specifically those that use AVX-512 instructions, with some tests showing ...

There are also enhancements to the way AVX instructions are processed, cryptography improvements, and hardware controlled power management coming with the Broadwell-EP based Xeon E5 v4 processor ...

First, architecture basics are detailed with information on the register sets, data types, and memory and instruction formats. Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® ...