[corsix]

From a hardware perspective, vector instructions operate on small 1D vectors, whereas tensor instructions operate on small 2D matrices. I say “instructions”, but it’s really only matrix multiply or matrix multiply and accumulate - most other instructions are fine staying as 1D.

[nologic01]

If there is matrix multiply at hardware level its fair to have another name than vectorization. For example the dimensions and partitioning of large matrices to fit would be specific to that design and very different from rolling things out on 1D arrays

[bee_rider]

Maybe they should call it a Matrix Multiplication Xcelerator just to mess with people.