Comment Re:Seems far-fetched (Score 1) 70
Nothing in CPU design has changed as a result of any of the marketing of the past 15 years or so. The multimedia stuff did result in some instruction set changes, but that more or less ended a while ago. Virtualization support was added back around the same time. If they add an AI instruction set that somehow makes sense in some way, then i'll notice, but I see no sign of that.
Intel's AMX instructions in their 4th gen Xeon's were designed for AI to enable loading huge amounts of data into a register array for matrix multiplication. This shit easily saturates all available memory bandwidth. Before that there was VNNI instructions which AMD also supports and was explicitly designed for AI.
The way I see this, it's just SIMD units getting wider. Some of us have been working with large vectors/matrices for decades, and wonder what's so "neural" about the latest matrix multiplication unit. It's nice to se the wide SIMD trend continue, as long as the hardware doesn't get too application-specific, so it remains useful after the current AI craze wears off.