Technique for handling data elements stored in an array storage

An apparatus is provided comprising processing circuitry to perform operations, instruction decoder circuitry to decode instructions to control the processing circuitry to perform the operations specified by the instructions, and array storage comprising storage elements to store data elements. The array storage is arranged to store at least one two dimensional array of data elements accessible to the processing circuitry when performing the operations, each two dimensional array of data elements comprising a plurality of vectors of data elements, where each vector is one dimensional. The instruction decoder circuitry is arranged, in response to a move and zero instruction that identifies one or more vectors of data elements of a given two dimensional array of data elements within the array storage, to control the processing circuitry to move the data elements of the one or more identified vectors from the array storage to a destination storage and to set to a logic zero value the storage elements of the array storage that were used to store the data elements of the one or more identified vectors.