Intel "Nova Lake" Could Arrive Without AVX10, APX, and AMX Support (www.techpowerup.com)

Intel’s next-generation “Nova Lake” desktop CPUs may arrive without support for the new AVX10, APX, and AMX instruction sets, according to an initial GCC enablement patch that omits those extensions. Intel has reportedly finished the core microarchitecture and an upgraded NPU design and finalized the instruction set, but the GCC patch suggests 512-bit vector/matrix acceleration and AMX-style matrix multiply ops could remain exclusive to Xeon/server SKUs. This conflicts with earlier signs — notably oneDNN adding AVX10.2 for “future Intel Core processors” — so final confirmation will depend on further enablement patches or official Intel disclosure. If consumer Nova Lake parts lack AVX10/APX/AMX, the AI/ML, content-creation, encoding, and scientific computing ecosystems could see continued fragmentation: optimized workloads would still need separate code paths or rely on narrower AVX/AVX2 paths, hurting throughput on 52-core consumer SKUs. By contrast, AMD’s Zen 5 ships full AVX-512 across its lineup (avoiding costly 512->2x256 emulation), giving it an edge in ISA-level throughput for vectorized and matrix-heavy kernels. Practically, Nova Lake will still support AVX/AVX2 and a long list of extensions, but absence of 512-bit and AMX features would limit native high-throughput vector/matrix acceleration for desktop and workstation users.