> The only thing they've done is disable it in the hybrid Alder Lake cores That is incorrect. You can buy Alder Lake CPUs that only have one type of core (the

> The only thing they've done is disable it in the hybrid Alder Lake cores That is incorrect. You can buy Alder Lake CPUs that only have one type of core (the i3 series only has P-cores, for example), and those do not support AVX-512 either. They're not "hybrid" in any way. Some of their motherboard partners initially allowed you to access AVX-512, but Intel has put a stop to this and the feature is disabled on all Alder Lake CPU SKUs, period. Newer Alder Lake chips have AVX-512 fused off in silicon, if the firmware blob disabling it isn’t enough: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx-512-now-fuses-it-off-in-silicon https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx... > Intel is not dropping support for it on a lot of CPUs. That seems like a pretty questionable statement. Intel might keep AVX-512 around for Xeon, but it seems extremely dead on the consumer market. If Intel decides to bring it back for the next generation, that would be strange and very poor planning.