<story><title>Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard</title><url>https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Artificial-Intelligence-AI/Intel-QuickAssist-Technology-Zstandard-Plugin-an-External/post/1509818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>berbec</author><text>A massive power and CPU load decrease in Zstandard is a big win for Intel. AMD has been racking up major pluses in the enterprise space, with RAM, PCIE and core count advantage. Showing that &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; Intel is faster at such a major CPU load task is a big deal.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not to detract from everything AMD has done, but hardware is only the first step. Software that properly uses the features your hardware provides is just, if not more, important.&lt;p&gt;I love the fact AMD is pushing Intel so much. Pre-C2D days were amazing because we had two vibrant, innovative companies pushing to the edge of possible; trying to out-do each other. Pre-Ryzen was a horrible time. Do you want to spend $500 to upgrade from a 4-core intel 4000-cpu to an intel 5000-cpu? You&amp;#x27;ll get DDR4 and 1% IPC.&lt;p&gt;Now we get massive IPC, clock speed, ram and PCIE improvements on a regular basis. Competition is great, especially for the consumer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard</title><url>https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Artificial-Intelligence-AI/Intel-QuickAssist-Technology-Zstandard-Plugin-an-External/post/1509818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>I love the QAT libraries and I feel their abilities are overlooked. Intel also has the igzip library that does not even require QAT and it radically faster than zlib, which is handy in older applications where gzip is unavoidable despite its obsolescence.&lt;p&gt;The major downside of course is it is quite tricky to use this stuff in practice. In the cloud, you need a bare metal instance that exposes the QAT peripheral, and they are relatively scarce. And this whole generation of hardware is only just beginning to land in public clouds. For machines you own, you will need to scrutinize Intel&amp;#x27;s somewhat ridiculous product matrix in order to acquire a Xeon that has QAT.</text></comment>