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Re:Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications by wtallis on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:38PM (#23481131)
Intel is still launching new processors with AVX2 disabled. They use AVX2 support for product segmentation and disable it on low-end parts. So a Comet Lake Pentium Gold CPU launched in Q2 2020 doesn't support AVX2.

(I recall a recent news story about how unawareness of this among people writing or documenting compilers has started to cause problems.)

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Re:Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications by blattimwind on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:51PM (#23481264)
Using IA for market segmentation purposes is such a classic from the "Bad Intel Ideas" basket...
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Re:Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications by vardump on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:04PM (#23481421)
That's very surprising, disappointing and extremely short-sighted from Intel.

> (I recall a recent news story about how unawareness of this among people writing or documenting compilers has started to cause problems.)

You can't blame them!

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