Intel MMX for multimedia PCs
A. Peleg, Sam Wilkie, Uri C. Weiser · Communications of the ACM · 1997
We observed that MMX technology's potential target applications share several characteristics:• Small native data types (e.g., 8-bit pixels, 16-bit audio samples) • Compute-intensive recurring operations performed on these data types • A lot of inherent parallelism.These characteristics pointed the MMX technology defini-Intel MMX for Multimedia PCs Accelerating multimedia and communications applications, especially on the Internet, MMX technology, or multimedia extensions, for Intel microprocessors-starting with the Pentium-features 57 new instructions and other architectural enhancements to boost system performance.