Linus Torvalds: "I Hope AVX512 Dies A Painful Death" Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 11 July 2020 at 08:39 PM EDT. 116 Comments Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some choice words today on Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) found on select Intel processors. In a mailing list discussion stemming from the Phoronix article this week on the compiler instructions Intel is enabling for Alder