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by TinkersW 2172 days ago
They wouldn't notice AVX512 vanishing because they never had it in the first place, as Intel hasn't shipped it in CPU people actually use for those tasks--just servers and random laptops.

As for the rest, you are wrong, AVX/512 is not just floating point by any means, and floating point is used by more than just scientific workloads.

Games/simulations/modeling software etc all can make heavy use of floating point.