Intel unveils AVX10 and APX instruction sets: unifying AVX-512 for hybrid architectures

Intel has announced two new x86-64 instruction sets designedto bolster and offer more performance in AVX-based workloads withtheir hybrid architecture of performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores.The first of Intel's announcements is their latest Intel Advanced Performance Extensions, or Intel APX as it's known. It is designed to bring generational, instruction set-driven improvements to load, store and compare instructions without impacting power consumption or the overall silicon die area of the CPU cores.

Intel has also published a technical paper detailing their new AVX10, enabling both Intel's performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores to support the converged AVX10/256-bitinstruction set going forward. This means that Intel's future generation of hybrid desktop, server, and workstationchips will be able to support multiple AVX vectors, including 128, 256, and 512-bit vector sizesthroughout the entirety of the cores holistically.

The basic gist is that these two new instruction sets should bring more performance at lower energy usage.