Advanced Synchronization Facility

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Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is a proposed extension to the x86-64 instruction set architecture that adds hardware transactional memory support. It was introduced by AMD; the latest specification was dated March 2009.^[1] As of October 2013^[update], it was still in the proposal stage.^[2] No released microprocessors implement the extension.