AMD announces 128-bit (GPU-oriented?) SSE5 extensions to x86

31 Aug, 2007  General

AMD wants to x86’s vector capabilities to catch up to AltiVec (almost), so they’re proposing a major new set of vector extensions that they call SSE5. Will this be a repeat of x86-64, or of 3DNow!?

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