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Re:Intel AVX10: The Successor to AVX-512 by jiggawatts on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:34PM (#36855695)
The latest shipping processor is the 4-th generation Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids". AVX10 looks like it won't be fully supported until the 6-th generation "Granite Rapids" Xeons, probably in 2025.

So AMD has plenty of time to implement the additional instructions, of which there don't appear to be that many. Mostly it's a unification of feature sets and a simplification of the CPU ID flags.

Also, Intel is still nerfing the efficiency "E" cores to AVX10-256, so the instruction sets will remain non-uniform in practice for the foreseeable future.

Meanwhile, AMD is implementing AVX-512 on all of their CPU cores including in the high-density 128-core AMD EPYC "Bergamo" line, which is a significant differentiator.

Intel just cannot resist segmenting a market, even when announcing that they're ending market segmentation!

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Re:Intel AVX10: The Successor to AVX-512 by brucethemoose2 on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:50PM (#36857645)
> So AMD has plenty of time to implement the additional instructions

Architectures take years to plan. If AMD is just finding out, I'm not sure they have time.

However, one would hope AMD had a little heads up. Its in Intel's and AMD's best interest not to flub the next AVX, with ARM SVE2 (and who knows what else) around the corner.

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