Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds hopes to see the end of Intel's 512-bit vector extensions and admits he has an "irrational hatred" of the floating-point (FP) benchmarks used to prove their value.

In High Performance Computing applications, developers always desire to get the most out of the underlying hardware. As the capabilities of the hardware continue to expand, it is important that ...

Intel's latest development in Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) features the introduction of AVX10, a significant stride forward in providing unified support for AVX-512 on both P-Cores and ...

Intel AVX-512 is the latest in a long history of x86 vector instruction sets. Vector instructions, commonly known as SIMD instructions, are special because they do more than one operation at a time.

Box64 emulates x64_64 CPUs in non-x86 Linux versions. The new version 0.3.0 supports the vector instruction set extensions AVX and AVX2. Box64 is an emulator for Linux that can run Intel software - ...

What just happened? FFmpeg developers keep on crunching "handwritten" assembly code to make the multimedia project faster than ever before. Thanks to newer vector-based instructions included in modern ...