It's been one year already since [1]Intel and AMD formed the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group in cooperation with other industry stakeholders. Today both companies are marking the first anniversary while reaffirming their commitment to the group.

In one year of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, they are celebrating key technical milestones around Flexible Return Event Delivery (FRED) being finalized, AVX10 as the next iteration of Advanced Vector Extensions, ChkTag as a unified x86 memory tagging effort, and ACE as Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for matrix multiplication.

ACE is what AMD and Intel is defining as the future of AMX for both vendors. AMD getting onboard with AVX10 remains exciting and was previously confirmed along with the FRED efforts.

ChkTag for x86 memory tagging is the main new joint initiative to talk about for AMD and Intel working together to fend off buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. The ChkTag specification is expected to be published later this year.

Looking toward the second year of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group they are looking at adding new strategic ISV partners, evaluating new ISA extensions, and working on other improvements around the x86 architecture.

Both vendors should be putting out blog posts shortly now that the embargo is up on this one-year announcement but as of writing the links haven't yet been supplied to us.

Update: Intel's blog post is now live on ChkTag via [2]community.intel.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AMD-x86-Ecosystem-Group

[2] https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490