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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:23PM (#28733055)
It was a message to Microsoft in 2017. The patents for x86-64 and SSE2 should have all expired since then. I don't think most software needs SSE3/4/AVX.
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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Koshkin on Saturday October 02, 2021 @09:29PM (#28733769)
Maybe does not “need” but definitely “wants” - using these as part of code optimization is quite common.
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