Why is Intel still making AVX CPUs?

Bruce Hugo · Aug 10, 2015

Taking Wikipedia with a grain of salt. It lists anticipated architectures to use AVX. If that's true, what reason would Intel have for not wanting to use AVX 2.0 (or better) on all their processors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions

Suztera · Aug 10, 2015

They do, it was only implemented first in Haswell cpus:
Since Haswell:
http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz?q=4770k

Skylake:
http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

rgd1101 · Aug 10, 2015

It on the wiki page, you just have to scroll down

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