[ashvardanian]

Yes, a lot of weird decisions were made at Intel.

Ironically, AMD waited so long to implement AVX-512, but now has it on both server and mobile chips (natively and 256 bit emulation, respectively). Intel started the whole thing, has a very fragmented stack and is now preparing those E cores with even more new extensions.

Most importantly for Search and AI, it adds AVX_VNNI, which can be used for faster 8-bit integer dot-products: https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD/blob/75c426fb190a9d4...

Would be interesting to see how matrix multiplication throughput will differ between AVX-512-capable P cores and a larger quantity of AVX_VNNI-capable E cores!

[alfiedotwtf]

A former Intel CEO even wrote a book where every product was planned 20+ years in advance.

Imagine planning 20 years in advance where Moore’s Law is still going strong. Come to think of it, Moore was also CEO of Intel lol