> Where Intel had great theoretical performance, but software didn't keep up? > For this to make a dent, Intel would need to hire a teach of engineers so Firef

> Where Intel had great theoretical performance, but software didn't keep up? > For this to make a dent, Intel would need to hire a teach of engineers so Firefox and Chrome both took advantage of the new instructions. That's more or less Intel's standard practice with its Intel compiler suite and MKL-and-similar libraries. If there are performance gains from SIMD being left on the table, some of it is on Intel for not building the middle tooling necessary to make it easy.