News Intel Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids CPU gain preliminary support in popular monitoring utility

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AIDA64 has received initial support helping it to identify Intel's next-gen Diamond Rapids and Nova Lake processors.

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What interests me most about these CPUs is that they should be the first desktop and server CPUs to feature APX, which is basically Intel's response to ARM and RISC-V. It cancels out several of their ISA advantages, as well as adding a couple new ones.

I think Intel has talked about a 10% IPC uplift, but this will require (only) a recompile of existing software and breaks compatibility with older CPUs. So, the pace of adoption should probably be rapid, at first, but then will slow to a crawl. Unlike previous ISA extensions, APX applies to everything, not just vector/fp performance.