There was once a processor called as Intel Pentium MMX. What does the signify ?

Question

There was once a processor called as Intel Pentium MMX. What does the signify ?

Answer 1

never before and never after MMX, was an instruction set's name was used to brand a processor. So for Intel to do it, it had something significant. apart from all the instruction set details that you can find from wikipedia and likes, a lay man's benefit is that, it is performs and renders complex math based vector graphics faster based on the 64 Bit stacks. This translated in to a new view of rasterization, shading, anisotropic filtering and texturizing. It had a new dimension of PC computing. Ofcourse this was way back.



MMX has many names but many would like to believe it is Multi Media eXtention for the processors.

Answer 2

In 1996, the Pentium MMX was introduced with the same basic microarchitecture as the previous pentium and complemented with MMX instructions, larger caches, and some other enhancements.



MMX is a single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction set designed by Intel, introduced in 1997 in their Pentium line of microprocessors, designated as "Pentium with MMX Technology".[1][2] It developed out of a similar unit first introduced on the Intel i860. MMX is a processor supplementary capability that is supported on recent IA-32 processors by Intel and other vendors.

Answer 3

It was an additional instruction set the processor allowed. Nowadays it's been incorporated into current processors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_%28instruction_set%29