ACE, the upcoming set of x86 Extensions defined by both AMD & Intel, has seen the latest spec release, focusing on AI acceleration. AMD & Intel Focus on AI Acceleration Through Next-Gen x86 Architectures That Are ACE Compliant Last year, Intel and AMD partnered to strengthen the x86 ecosystem through their "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" initiative. The plan was to offer a standardized set of features across architectures to make x86 accessible, scalable, and compatible with future requirements. Four key features were announced: FRED, AVX10, ChkTag, and ACE. Now, the latest ACE "AI Compute Extensions" specifications have been published by AMD […]

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AMD has unlocked upto 215% higher performance on its Threadripper CPUs in Handbrake through fixes. Handbrake Was Limited To 64-Cores, AMD Managed To Fix That & Brought Up To 215% Higher Performance With its Threadripper CPUs AMD worked with HandBrake to fix the missing performance on its Threadripper CPUs, bringing a 181% increase in transcoding performance on its Threadripper PRO and 215% boost on its Ryzen Threadripper CPU lineup. According to AMD, Video transcoding applications such as Handbrake benefit massively from higher core counts, but that wasn't exactly the case with its Threadripper lineup, where the CPU performance didn't scale; […]

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