Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares his strong views on AVX-512.
Linus Torvalds Wishes Intel's AVX-512 A Painful Death : Read more
Linus Torvalds Wishes Intel's AVX-512 A Painful Death : Read more
Well, Linus was mostly a kernel developer and kernel stuff has little to no use for FP and high-volume math in general. With the amount of AI and AI-derived stuff making its way to the consumer market, having a decent amount of low-latency FP8/12/16 performance may become very much necessary even for normal people a few more years from now.Don’t they code first on such hardware and then they run it on the big supercomputer? Linus seems to be either stack in the past or he is simply too narrow-minded these days and only cares about what he is personally involved with.