Ajay
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Well, there is already support for SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES acceleration and PCLMULQDQ in all of the current stuff.
Software will need to be updated to support AVX but that will be the same for intel and AMD.
XOP and FMA4 are the 2 that intel is not, at this point, implementing. We are obviously working with the tools vendors, but I cannot comment on their products because I do not work for them and I am pretty sure they would not want me making statements on behalf of their products.
But if you think about it, FMA4 is going to be pretty powerful and there will be tools vendors that will really want to take advantage of that instruction set because it will give them an advantage in the market (compiled code will run a lot faster).
Thanks for the info. Since AMD doesn't produce their own compiler like Intel does, I've often wondered what kind of relationship they had with compiler vendors - sound like AMD has good relationships. Clearly, AMD has had a good relationship with M$, often introducing new subsystems (x64 & DX 10.1 because AMD/ATI had the required support first).