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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.

  3. Re:It's a couple links deep... by funfail · · Score: 4, Funny

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