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In addition to lock free queues, they're moving logic from 'software' into instructions. This will be dark silicon on most CPUs and heavily used on some. Seymou
by CalChris 10y ago
In addition to lock free queues, they're moving logic from 'software' into instructions. This will be dark silicon on most CPUs and heavily used on some. Seymour Cray probably started this with his Population Count instruction for the NSA.
It's a typically workman-like great Intel idea. They're busy protecting their X86 franchise against encroachment real or potential from FPGAs, ASICs, GPUs and ARM.