Specification Sheet

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Technologies
• Additional computational and/or data manipulation primitives
• Compatibility – Intel
®
AVX is backward compatible with previous ISA extensions
including Intel
®
SSE4:
— Existing Intel
®
SSE applications/library can:
• Run unmodified and benefit from processor enhancements
• Recompile existing Intel
®
SSE intrinsic using compilers that generate
Intel
®
AVX code
• Inter-operate with library ported to Intel
®
AVX
— Applications compiled with Intel
®
AVX can inter-operate with existing Intel
®
SSE libraries.
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