MMXMMX is a Pentium microprocessor from Intel that is designed to run faster when playing multimedia applications. According to Intel, a PC with an MMX microprocessor runs a multimedia application up to 60% faster than one with a microprocessor having the same clock speed but without MMX. In addition, an MMX microprocessor runs other applications about 10% faster. The MMX technology consists of three improvements over the non-MMX Pentium microprocessor: - 57 new microprocessor instructions have been added that are designed to handle video, audio, and graphical data more efficiently.
- A new process, Single Instruction Multiple Data ( SIMD ), makes it possible for one instruction to perform the same operation on multiple data items.
- The memory cache on the microprocessor has increased to 32 thousand bytes, meaning fewer accesses to memory that is off the microprocessor.
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| This word suggested by: Sam Belinoski | | Last updated on:
Apr 05, 2005 |
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