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Added 2 notes 

1) Skylake and KNL support for X86
2) masked intrinsics load/store/gather/scatter

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18353

llvm-svn: 264703
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@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
Changes to the LLVM IR
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* New intrinsics ``llvm.masked.load``, ``llvm.masked.store``,
``llvm.masked.gather`` and ``llvm.masked.scatter`` were introduced to the
LLVM IR to allow selective memory access for vector data types.
Changes to the ARM Backend
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@ -90,9 +97,15 @@ Changes to the PowerPC Target
Changes to the X86 Target
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During this release ...
* LLVM now supports the Intel CPU codenamed Skylake Server with AVX-512
extensions using ``-march=skylake-avx512``. The switch enables the
ISA extensions AVX-512{F, CD, VL, BW, DQ}.
* LLVM now supports the Intel CPU codenamed Knights Landing with AVX-512
extensions using ``-march=knl``. The switch enables the ISA extensions
AVX-512{F, CD, ER, PF}.
Changes to the AMDGPU Target
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