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FWIW, the 'AVX' CPU feature is part of the x86-64-v3 level of the x86-64 microarchitecture standard [0].

There are chips produced in 2015 that are only supporting x86-64-v2 [0]. Also, according to [1], "The new server-class CPUs released in 2020 [2] do not implement the AVX instruction set."

FWIW2, RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL9) requires x86-64-v2 or newer [1]. So, as a reference, they decided to not yet require support for AVX.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

[1] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...

[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...




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