My recent posts https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql/2016/06/03/sql-2016-it-just-runs-faster-column-store-uses-vector-instructions-sseavx/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql/2016/06/03/sql-2016-it-just-runs-faster-bulk-insert-uses-vector-instructions-sseavx/ have generated discussions about the SSE and AVX support