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Re:Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-... by dijit on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @12:05PM (#11345678)
Added hardware instructions for common software instruction combinations taking load of the CPU itself and offloading it into a mini-ASIC.

Like AES, Floating point, h.264 etc;

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Re:Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-... by curt15 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @12:32PM (#11345937)
Intel CPUs have had special AES instructions for a long time.
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