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> But is that really true? Yes. > Microprocessors (CPUs) do very simple things Look at the instructions like vfmadd132ps on AMD64, or the ARM equivalent VMLA
by Const-me 6y ago
> But is that really true?
Yes.
> Microprocessors (CPUs) do very simple things
Look at the instructions like vfmadd132ps on AMD64, or the ARM equivalent VMLA.F32. None of them are simple.
> It is part of Intel’s intellectual property
Patents have expiration dates. You probably can’t emulate Intel’s AVX512 because it’s relatively new, but whatever patents were covering SSE1 or SSE2 have expired years ago.
> If you go with x86 you have to do all that on external chips.
Encryption is right there, see AES-NI or SHA.
> Another core idea of RISC was pipelining
I don’t know whose idea it was, but the first hardware implementation was Intel 80386, in 1985.