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- AltiVec is a single-precision floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor (formerly...
- applications designed to take advantage of the AltiVec unit. Some examples are Adobe Photoshop which utilises the AltiVec unit for faster rendering of effects and...
- architecture in 1996. This sparked the introduction of the much more powerful AltiVec system in the Motorola PowerPC and IBM's POWER systems. Intel responded...
- swap bytes and undo the exclusive-OR when accessing little-endian chips. AltiVec operations, despite being 128-bit, are treated as if they were 64-bit....
- auxiliary processing units like digital signal processors (DSPs) and the AltiVec extension. Book II – Virtual Environment Architecture defines the storage...
- Additionally, IBM has included an AltiVec (VMX) unit which is fully pipelined for single precision floating point (Altivec 1 does not support double precision...
- technologies like the Vector-Media Extensions known under the brand name AltiVec (also called VMX by IBM) and hardware virtualization. This new ISA was...
- under the Apache License. Jon Scott Stevens derived the name from the AltiVec Velocity Engine in the PowerPC G4 chip. Some common types of applications...
- double-precision floating-point units, two load/store units and two AltiVec units. One of the AltiVec units executes integer and floating-point instructions, and...
- lscpu - provided by the util-linux package in most Linux distributions. AltiVec - equivalent on PowerPC architecture "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures...