The PlayStation 3's Cell Broadband Engine was fairly unlike any other processor. It had capabilities that make emulating the system surprisingly demanding, even for modern hardware. As we've reported ...

The AVX-512 instruction set has had a bizarre history. Originally introduced with Intel's Xeon Phi processors based on the "Knights Landing" design, it later found its way into the company's server ...

Intel Core i9-12900K CPU was used for testing at 5.2 GHz with AVx-512 enabled. Using standard SSE2 instructions, the game only hit 5 FPS. Switching to AVX2/FMA gives us an additional 13% performance ...

AVX-512 support was done by the developers of the RPCS3 emulator for the Playstation 3, who wanted to see how the new Alder Lake architecture behaved with their emulator. By disabling the ...

Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for that particular use. For ...

Box64 emulates x64_64 CPUs in non-x86 Linux versions. The new version 0.3.0 supports the vector instruction set extensions AVX and AVX2. Box64 is an emulator for Linux that can run Intel software - ...