Why it matters: Intel is gearing up for what the company considers the "next major step" in the evolution of the original x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). The Santa Clara corporation is ...

ARM has unveiled a new, highly flexible type of vector processing instruction that it plans to debut in HPC markets and businesses. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Box64 emulates x64_64 CPUs in non-x86 Linux versions. The new version 0.3.0 supports the vector instruction set extensions AVX and AVX2. Box64 is an emulator for Linux that can run Intel software - ...

Designed for floating-point intensive applications, the Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are a new 256-bit instruction set extension to Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel SSE). Released to ...