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> Which one are we talking about? You tell me. AVX and SSE are at-most two discrete hardware blocks and more often one. Apple Silicon, in it's genius RISC glor
by bigyabai 1y ago
> Which one are we talking about?
You tell me. AVX and SSE are at-most two discrete hardware blocks and more often one. Apple Silicon, in it's genius RISC glory, possesses:
1) A Neural Engine
2) ARM NEON as Accelerate
3) Generic GPU SIMD as MPS
4) MatMul units in M5+ hardware
It's an impressive amount of fragmentation for a single vendor that supposedly knows what they're doing. Even Nvidia doesn't suffer from this level of identity crisis, despite burning the compute/raster candle at both ends. Apple's approach explains their NASDAQ performance but not much else. It's a bit baffling.