That's only true for Intel Skylake mobile/desktop CPUs. I find desktop and mobile offerings too unreliable for anything serious, due to lack of ECC support. Data corruption on non-ECC systems has bitten me more than once. I've learned my lesson.
Skylake Xeons — the only Intel chips I'm interested in anyways — on the other hand will support AVX-512. The software I'm writing already has rudimentary support for AVX-512. The prospect of processing 64 of 16 bit elements per clock cycle per core is pretty exciting. 32x per instruction (512/16) and 2x comes hopefully from dual issue.
Besides, we're talking about AMD chips here, aren't we?
