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by zozbot234 1514 days ago
> The AVX-512 instructions were never added to the efficiency cores because it would use way too much die space and defeat the purpose of efficiency cores.

And this is why scalable vector ISA's like the RISC-V vector extensions are superior to fixed-size SIMD. You can support both kinds of microarchitecture while running the exact same code.