Intel's Haswell Introduces VECS, VEBOX

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No more AMD cpu's for me for the foreseeable future...

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Haswell Introduces VECS, VEBOX

While AMD is letting go of their Linux staff responsible for new CPU enablement, there's no slowdown on the Intel side for future hardware enablement under Linux. New Haswell Linux patches were published yesterday, which also reveal a few more details about the video playback improvements to be found on these Intel processors to be introduced in 2013...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIyMzY