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AMD Unveils SSE5 Instruction Set

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

mestlick writes "Today AMD unveiled its 128-Bit SSE5 Instruction Set. The big news is that it includes 3 operand instructions such as floating point and integer fused multiply add and permute. AMD posted a press release and a PDF describing the new instructions."

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  1. APL by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    instructions such as floating point and integer fused multiply add and permute

    So machine languages are APL-compatible these days.

  2. Re:...or are they just toys? by theGreater · · Score: 5, Funny

    It ROUNDSS! It ROUNDSS us! It FRCZSS! Nasty AMD added to it.

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  4. Re:...or are they just toys? by ben+there... · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nasty AMD added to it. The better question is how the fuck did AMD get to write the next iteration of an Intel technology. Shouldn't it be AMD 3DNow!^2? This is like Apple deciding their next HFS filesystem will be versioned NTFS 7.0.

    They can battle back and forth with version numbers and see who is first to get to 11, the version number where, for whatever reason, developers are forced to come up with a new versioning scheme. That will throw a wrench in the works. Take that Intel!