Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday

Examining the extent of AVX related downclocking on Intel's Ice Lake CPU

Concurrent operations can be grouped relatively neatly into categories based on their cost

Taking a second look at the newly introduced mask registers, this time with the benefit of a SKX die shot from Fritzchens Fritz.

We look at the zero store optimization as it applies to Intel's newest micro-architecture.

Probing a previously undocumented zero-related optimization on Intel CPUs.