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I just read about how they were delaying the AVX512 until 'Knights Landing' (Xeon Phi) and with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with

I just read about how they were delaying the AVX512 until 'Knights Landing' (Xeon Phi) and with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with anything substantial in years. Hopefully the recent Altera acquisition will help them innovate

chinhodado 11y ago
> with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with anything substantial in years Not really. This statement is true regarding desktop CPUs, but we all know for at least five years now Intel's focus is not desktop CPU performance anymore, but mobile. Hence most of the improvements we see are for mobile, like better embedded graphic (Sandy/Ivy Bridge forward) and improved power consumption (Haswell).
- wtallis 11y ago
  Intel really shouldn't get credit for the Sandy Bridge IGP, because that's just where they caught up to the NVidia IGPs that they'd banned. The first generation of Core series mobile chips represented a major step backwards from the user's perspective because Intel would no longer let NVidia make chipsets, so Intel's IGPs no longer had to compete against the GeForce 9400M and 320M. Ivy Bridge was the first time Intel actually moved the market forwards in terms of mobile IGP performance.
vardump 11y ago
> with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with anything substantial in years Unlocking Haswell's performance (up to 2x integer/FPU) requires using AVX2 instructions. Which means at least recompiling and to truly extract the performance, optimizing to AVX2 intrinsics or assembler.