Can Llano do AVX?

[saaya]

But even in books there is a difference between reading, and reading between the lines.
Understanding words isn't the same thing as understanding the context.

sure, reading tons of books doesnt man youll necessarily get all hints... but whats your point? that hans is interpreting things into the die shot that just arent there? its not like he even claimed it supports avx, he found hints that it might, the thread title carries a question mark, so i dont get why people troll him for hinting at an interesting find without posting anything useful themselves...

even IF llano CAN do avx, it doesnt mean it will... its not like it would be the first time that logic gets added that is only enabled in a later rev or design. it might be broken or not work as well as planned, and it will never be used...

transmeta attempted something similar. the difference is they intended for the underlying architecture to intercept x86 and it is not inside and x86 cpu. even if AMD tried there would be so many issues and it would be counterproductive. its pretty much impossible with any real world constraints. think about it. it is THAT hard.

hmmm... correct me if im wrong, but isnt every modern x86 cpu blocks of risc logic with an x86 decoder on top? so then the decoder needs to be able to spit out code that a gpu core can process, and the latter has to be able to spit out data in a way it can be built into an x86 compatible result again... its basically adding a new type of fpu block to the cpu... so the gpu core wouldnt have to execute x86 code, right?
please excuse my lack of knowledge about this