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There are some add-with-saturation opcodes in 8bit-element-size SIMD ISAs, I think that includes x86_64, some recent Nvidia GPUs, and the Raspberry Pi 1's VideoCore IV's strange 2D-register-file vector unit made for implementing stuff like VP8/H.264 on it. They are afaik always opt-in, though.


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