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# x86 Advanced Vector Extensions
* Sandy Bridge New Extensions
* **AVX**
* AVX uses sixteen YMM registers. Each YMM register contains:
-- eight 32-bit single-precision floating point numbers or
-- four 64-bit double-precision floating point numbers.

* [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions)

