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Chipzilla hits back at Torvalds AVX-512 coments – Fudzilla
It is not nice to say “I hope it dies a painful death” Intel has replied to Linus Torvalds comments that he hoped “AVX512 dies a painful death” and “Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks tha…
Torvalds was not the only person to kick AVX-512 in the shins either. Former Intel engineer Francois Piednoel also said the special instruction simply did not belong in laptops, as the power and die space area trade-offs just are not worth it.
Intel Chief Architect Raja Koduri says their community loves it because they’re seeing a huge performance boost:
“AVX-512 is a great feature. Our HPC community, AI community, love it,” Koduri said, responding to a question from PCWorld about the AVX-512 …
