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What’s often overlooked is that adoption of MMX was slooooow. Intel compiler were the only intrinsic data types for years. The big win was DirectX 3 audio drive
by nojokepoke 1mo ago
What’s often overlooked is that adoption of MMX was slooooow. Intel compiler were the only intrinsic data types for years. The big win was DirectX 3 audio drivers that used premade Intel libraries. It took at least five to ten years for SIMD to catch on, but the never stopped Intel from evolving it. Then they lost the GPU wars lol rip larabeee.
- ack_complete 1mo agoMMX had heavy adoption in image and video processing. IDCT, motion prediction/compensation, YUV/RGB conversion, and alpha blending all benefited from it.
- nojokepoke 1mo agoThanks for the reminder. Yes Intel was touting high bit rates in software compared to the matrox millennium hardware 2d accelerator.
- p_l 1mo agoAnd now the legacy of Larrabee, AVX-512, is only properly available on AMD for consumers :D