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Understanding Assembly Language for IA-32 and Intel 64 Architectures – Part 1: Basic overview and instruction set extensions

First, architecture basics are detailed with information on the register sets, data types, and memory and instruction formats. Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® ...
CNET

Intel's future graphics chip adding a new vector

The company's Larrabee chip will use a new class of vector-processing instructions when it arrives in late 2009 or 2010, but Intel promises it will still be easier to develop for than rivals' products ...
insideHPC

OpenMP and SIMD Instructions on Intel Xeon Phi

Both the Intel Xeon processor and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor continue to increase in performance as each generation is developed. To gain maximum performance from these architectures, it is ...
Electronic Design

Intel's AVX Scales To 1024 bit Vector Math

Intel's SSEx (Streaming SIMD Extensions) started in 1999 with the Pentium III and have since grown to the latest incarnation dubbed AVX for Advanced Vector Extensions. AVX is expected in Intel's ...