MSFP8-MSFP11 (Microsoft floating-point 8-11) is a series of number encoding formats occupying 8 to 11 bits representing a floating-point number. MSFP8 is equivalent to a standard half-precision floating-point value with a truncated mantissa field. It is the 8-bit equivalent of the bfloat16 number format and is used for the very same purpose of hardware accelerating machine learning algorithms. MSFP was first proposed and implemented by Microsoft.

The Intel Intrinsics Guide is an interactive reference tool for Intel intrinsic instructions, which are C style functions that provide access to many Intel instructions - including Intel® SSE, AVX, AVX-512, and more - without the need to write assembly code.