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Realistically though that doesn't really matter to them. AI/ML is making them so much money at the moment that the gaming market could crash and they would probably be happier to just dedicate that wafer capacity to pro/dc instead.

Won't be called that. My money is on Pro A1 for A730, and Nano A1 for A530 going by their declared market segment branding. Either way it seems like they are resetting to the number 1 for all new IPs in this generation, following the recent Qualcomm type numbering scheme. Lol, X series is...

They can end it whenever they want if the sales figures for the segment aren't worth the effort.

AI/ML is a consideration for CPU µArch design, but compared to GPU µArch it's relatively minor.

Ah wait no I misread that horribly. It does have 128 and 256 bit instructions. It's only that 512 bit instructions aren't optional anymore.

Phoronix usually spills the beans well enough @Io Magnesso https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AVX10-Drops-256-Bit

AVX10 no longer has 128 or 256 bit instructions as of a few months back when the latest revision of the standard came out.

This might be when they announce... https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-announces-earnings-release-date-for-first-quarter-fiscal-year-ended-2026

Oh good, jumping straight to SME2.

Something something fixed function hardware pipeline (for gfx). Something something branch prediction misses.

Is this is a significant departure from GFX12 then?

It sooooo does. I've seen it from at least 2 different generations of fairly tech savvy people separated by about 40 years. I have it myself having not bought a single Intel CPU since my 3 Ghz P4/Prescott in.... I wanna say 2004? (I feel oooolllldd, get me my walking cane 👴🩼) Though it's...

It's a big shift starting at the lowest levels of the engine code. Like a similar effort on Firefox/Gecko (Project Electrolysis) it takes time. Like bringing in new features starts with one version at experimental -> beta in a later version and then finally production on an even later version...

Going waaaay off topic here, but hydrogen bombs are fission/fusion hybrid thermonuclear weapons. The initial fission reaction acts like a primer to attain the temp/pressure conditions necessary to achieve fusion ignition on the deuterium/tritium fuel. They are called hydrogen bombs, but in...

No dark silicon is very much a power related issue. Either you lack the power to have the whole chip active without draining your battery dry, or lighting the whole thing up will turn your lap into an easy bake oven as the power overflows at the molecular level 🔥🤣