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by eyegor 1213 days ago
Perhaps market segmentation, perhaps they heard of a vulnerability in their implementation that they couldn't patch (hence the microcode update). Intel loves market segmentation (server specific avx extensions, bfloat, ecc, overclocking), and I wouldn't be shocked to see them sell avx512 support as a "dlc" microcode update down the road.