Monday, July 3rd 2023
Intel Releases Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake Instruction-set Reference Guide
In a bid to prepare its ISV ecosystem for emerging technologies with future processor microarchitectures, Intel periodically releases instruction-set reference guides. The latest of these was leaked to the web, making their first references to the upcoming "Arrow Lake" and "Lunar Lake" client processor microarchitectures. From the looks of it, Intel is planning a massive push into the client AI acceleration space, starting with the upcoming "Meteor Lake" architecture that debuts later this year. The processor is expected to feature hardware acceleration for AI, with the new AI Boost feature.
The company could build on AI Boost with even more capabilities in the subsequent "Arrow Lake" and "Lunar Lake" microarchitectures. Among the instruction sets relevant to AI deep-learning neural net building and training, are AVX VNNI with INT8, AVX VNNI with INT16, AVX-IFMA, and AVX-NE Convert. There are several new security-relevant instructions, including SHA512, SM3, and SM4. "Lunar Lake" will introduce TSE-PBNDKB (total storage encryption). The ISA Reference Guide can be accessed here.
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The company could build on AI Boost with even more capabilities in the subsequent "Arrow Lake" and "Lunar Lake" microarchitectures. Among the instruction sets relevant to AI deep-learning neural net building and training, are AVX VNNI with INT8, AVX VNNI with INT16, AVX-IFMA, and AVX-NE Convert. There are several new security-relevant instructions, including SHA512, SM3, and SM4. "Lunar Lake" will introduce TSE-PBNDKB (total storage encryption). The ISA Reference Guide can be accessed here.
7 Comments on Intel Releases Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake Instruction-set Reference Guide
Intel shooting itself in foot once again...
On the flip side the current limitations of integrated 3d cache end up forcing AMD to release incredibly power efficient CPU's because they just can't juice them to edge out intel without them exploding.
Perhaps I just don't know what it's being used for if anything other than boosting CPU bound cache sensitive games.
The difference here is that when a new level of caching is added to a CPU it usually helps 80-90% of the workloads, whereas AMD's 3D cache is squarely aimed at gaming. It seems to be doing its job well, even if it comes with a few drawbacks, so I don't have anything against it.