Is x86 ready to ACE it?

mfiguiere 45 points 6 comments July 14, 2026
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supriyo-biswas

Great article. What does the (organizational) process look like to convert one of these specs to a processor product, does it go through a committee like the C++ standards?

aidenn0

With 8kb of registers for just this one feature, what does a modern process-control-block look like?

fragmede

AI Compute Extensions, ACE.

ksec

I assume Zen 6 won't support these, so we are looking Zen 7 at the earliest, which is 2028 earliest. In the meantime x86 don't have much in the roadmap that compete well with ARM vendor's offering. And that was before Nvidia decided to join the fight.

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