diff --git a/storage-proofs/porep/src/lib.rs b/storage-proofs/porep/src/lib.rs
index 7c4698b0c..e95bad2de 100644
--- a/storage-proofs/porep/src/lib.rs
+++ b/storage-proofs/porep/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 //requires nightly, or later stable version
 //#![warn(clippy::unwrap_used)]
 
+#![cfg_attr(target_arch = "aarch64", feature(stdsimd))]
+
 pub mod drg;
 pub mod stacked;
 
diff --git a/storage-proofs/porep/src/stacked/vanilla/macros.rs b/storage-proofs/porep/src/stacked/vanilla/macros.rs
index 97d8f26f6..2cb29d3bd 100644
--- a/storage-proofs/porep/src/stacked/vanilla/macros.rs
+++ b/storage-proofs/porep/src/stacked/vanilla/macros.rs
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ macro_rules! prefetch {
 
             _mm_prefetch($val, _MM_HINT_T0);
         }
+        #[cfg(all(target_arch = "aarch64"))]
+        unsafe {
+            use std::arch::aarch64::*;
+            _prefetch($val, _PREFETCH_READ, _PREFETCH_LOCALITY3);
+        }
     };
 }