Intel Cannonlake Added To LLVM’s Clang – AVX-512

[Yar]

One of our readers just pointed us to a story over at Phoronix that states the future Intel desktop processors will support Clang (C language family frontend for LLVM compiler infrastructure project). We aren’t talking about Kaby Lake, the successor to Skylake referred to by many as the Skylake refresh that is due out 2H 2016, but rather the 10-nm Cannonlake processors that are still on track for a late 2017 debut. It appears that Elena Demikhovksy, Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation, made a commit over the weekend that shows Intel Cannonlake CPUs do indeed have AVX-512 support (also called by many AVX3). We highly doubt that you’ll see the AVX-512 instruction set on every single Intel Cannonlake processor as Intel will likely disable it on many mainstream processor models (Core i3 & Core i5) and use it as a selling feature for the higher-end

More here: http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-canno ... ang_179210

[Yar]

Will AVX 3 help in chess programming ?

[matthewlai]

Will AVX 3 help in chess programming ?

Yes, if you use neural networks .

[Werewolf]

Hello Matthew,

On a sort of related note, did you say you intended to release one final version of Giraffe with cleaned up code or something?

Love the idea of neural net chess...