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In Chapters 5 and 6, you examined MMX technology, which was the x86 platform’s first SIMD enhancement. In this chapter, you'll explore the successor to MMX technology. X86 Streaming SIMD Extensions (x86-SSE) refers to a collection of architectural enhancements that have steadily advanced the SIMD computing capabilities of the x86 platform. X86-SSE adds new registers and instructions that facilitate SIMD computations using packed floating-point data types. It also extends the integer SIMD processing capabilities of MMX technology.
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Kusswurm, D. (2014). Streaming SIMD Extensions. In: Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0064-3_7
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