Chrome no longer supports old processors including certain Intel Atom and Celeron processors
According to the latest support document released by Google Chrome, the browser will no longer provide support for some particularly old processors, that is, no new version of the browser can be installed.
These affected old processors include Intel Celeron and Atom processors, which were mainly released in 2005 and do not support the SSE 3 instruction set.
The SSE 3 instruction set is the third edition of the SSE streaming multimedia instruction set. From public information, almost all processors released after 2005 support the SSE 3 instruction set.
The Windows 10 system itself also supports the SSE 2 instruction set, so users can install the system on these old processors, but there may be restrictions on the software.
At present, Google Chrome has displayed warnings in the beta version. If users are using x86 processors with SSE 2 and below, they will prompt that they will no longer be supported in the future.
Google did not specify when it will give up support for these older processors, but now that it has issued a notice stating that subsequent versions may change.
In addition, the beta version also shows that Chromium 89 and above will crash directly when installed on x86 processors with SSE 2 and below.
Therefore, Google may also start to enable the new policy in Chrome version 89, which also means that other Chromium series browsers will also be affected by this adjustment.
Including Microsoft Edge, Barve Browser, Vivaldi browser, and Opera browser, etc., of course, this also depends on the developer’s support.
Very few of these old processors are still in service. In fact, Android, ChromeOS, and macOS no longer support the SSE 2 instruction set.
Although Windows 10 still supports the old extended instruction set, the number of users is very small, so this change by Google will only affect a very small number of devices.
In the future, Microsoft may also increase the requirements for the extended instruction set version. At that time, these old processors may not be able to install the new version of Windows 10 until retirement.
Via: TechSpot
