The disclosure relates to a processing element and a chipset system, which are used for completing execution of rotate instructions without reading carry flag. One aspect of the disclosure may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading any of a carry flag, an overflow flag, a sign flag, and a zero flag, and without writing any of the carry flag, the overflow flag, the sign flag, and the zero flag.