Vector Intrinsics System Software Work Group syssw-chair@openpowerfoundation.org OpenPOWER Foundation 2017 OpenPOWER Foundation Revision 1.0 OpenPOWER Copyright details are filled in by the template. The goal of this project is to provide functional equivalents of the Intel MMX, SSE, and AVX intrinsic functions, that are commonly used in Linux applications, and make them (or equivalents) available for the PowerPC64LE platform. This document is a Non-standard Track, Work Group Note work product owned by the System Software Workgroup and handled in compliance with the requirements outlined in the OpenPOWER Foundation Work Group (WG) Process document. It was created using the Master Template Guide version 0.9.5. Comments, questions, etc. can be submitted to the public mailing list for this document at syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org. 2018-3-14 Revision 1.0 - Minor updates. Published version. 2017-10-30 Revision 0.3 - Updates to describe issues associated with larger vector sizes and proposed solutions. 2017-09-14 Revision 0.2 - Miscellaneous correction for spelling, grammar and punctuation. 2017-07-26 Revision 0.1 - initial draft from Steve Munroe