This is just a nitpicking question. Do Intel chips still have some space/transistors dedicated to SSE3? If they do, why can’t they implement SSE3 by other, more powerful instrutions (like AVX) to save die space?

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    10 months ago

    It’s a way of creating a sequential control circuit based on a piece of memory holding the outputs and next state for each state.