> So AMD has plenty of time to implement the additional instructions Architectures take years to plan. If AMD is just finding out, I'm not sure they have time.

> So AMD has plenty of time to implement the additional instructions Architectures take years to plan. If AMD is just finding out, I'm not sure they have time. However, one would hope AMD had a little heads up. Its in Intel's and AMD's best interest not to flub the next AVX, with ARM SVE2 (and who knows what else) around the corner.