[Earw0rm]

And a few years later, Intel said we'd get AVX512 on everything by 2016, and that the instruction encoding supported a future extension to 1024.

And then the Skylake and Cannon Lake debacle..

First they pulled it from the consumer chips a fairly short time before launch. Then the server chips it was present in would downclock aggressively when you did use it, so you could get at best maybe 40% more performance, certainly far from the 2x+ it promised.

Ten years on and the AMD 9950X does a pretty good job with it, however.

[Earw0rm]

Oh, and I neglected to mention the protracted development, and short, miserable life, of Cannon Lake itself.

First announced in 2013, it eventually shipped five years later in only a single, crippled dual-core mobile SKU, which lasted just a year in the market before they killed it off.

"Let's put our only consumer implementation of our highest performing vector architecture on a lame-duck NUC chip.", good move guys.