> I dispute the idea that SKL and the laptop/desktop space is significant in a discussion of AVX Well I think it is significant. I'd say that overall the lapto

> I dispute the idea that SKL and the laptop/desktop space is significant in a discussion of AVX Well I think it is significant. I'd say that overall the laptop/desktop space makes reasonable use of AVX and AVX2, probably more than your average load in the data center. HPC certainly makes the most use of AVX/AVX2, but on the laptop/desktop you have at least: - Gaming - Media encoding and in some cases decoding (this also happens on GPU) - Rendering and graphics work (this also happens on GPU) - All sorts of random AVX2 use in compiler generated code and runtime libraries (e.g., AVX2 is used widely in perf sensitive libc routines like memcpy) and even in JIT-generated code