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=== Cray Supercomputers ===
Cray patented BMM (Bit matrix multiply) in 1990 which could cope with up to 64x64-bit operands.<ref>{{cite web | title=Vector bit-matrix multiply functional unit | url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US5170370A/en }}</ref> The closest equivalent today is the 8x8 GF(2) Affine Transform instruction of AVX512
 
=== IBM System/360 through z/Architecture ===