Zen 5's SIMD data parallelism leads the pack, and Zen 6 'could be wild'
lemire · x · 2026-09-18
Daniel Lemire notes that AMD's Zen 5 processors are far ahead of the competition on SIMD data parallelism. On the next-gen Zen 6, details are unknown, but he hints it could be wild.
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