Matisyahu's Blog

I went for a walk today down to the supermarket to pick up a few things and I walked back – squeezing in some exercise to make it part of ones normal every day routine rather than having to set aside time to do it. To be honest, the amount of time it takes to get down to the store, even on the days where I work from 11:30am to 8:00pm means that I can easily walk down to the supermarket and make it with plenty of time before the store closes. One of the benefits of not having a scooter is that it has forced me to be more active and get the exercise in during the day without even thinking about it which results in it becoming a normalised part of my life.

The next update Intel will release for it’s CPU family will be Nova Lake with rumours that the APX extension, which increases the number of registers from 16 to 32, will arrive on that platform (although other reports state that Panther Lake will be the CPU that’ll APX to market) – it’ll be interesting to see how Microsoft handles that given that Intel notes that a recompile is all that is required (link) will we see Microsoft recompile Windows and create a fresh ISO that takes advantage of the APX extension. It’ll also be interesting to see whether we’ll end up seeing Zen 6 microarchitecture from AMD will include APX and AVX 10 – I could imagine it is highly desirable for that to be the case so there is some harmonisation between the two vendors given the benefits in terms of performance and power efficiency that come from the APX extension being made available. Nova Lake is scheduled to be released in early 2026 for mobile and towards the end of 2026/early 2027 for the desktop version.

That being said, in the future I might end up having an ARM based laptop running Windows and a x86-64 desktop running Windows – I like to keep my options open. There is one thing that I am interested in setting up though which is setting up ethernet cables under the house – one for the desktop in the lounge room given that I’d sooner have a robust connection when uploading gigabytes of data to my Google Drive.