Hardware providers and CPUs Windows SSE2 SSE3 SSE4 SSE5 AVX – Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later only Oracle Solaris UltraSPARC T2+ SPARC T3 IBM AIX Power 6 (P6) Power 7 (P7) HP-UX Itanium SUSE Linux SSE2 SSE3 SSE4 SSE5 AVX – Linux Kernel 2.6.30 or later only Red Hat Linux SSE2 SSE3 SSE4 SSE5 AVX – Linux Kernel 2.6.30 or later only