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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....
- include Intel's Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and the PowerPC-related AltiVec (also known as VMX). Many modern architectures (including embedded ones)...
- configuration. The PowerPC 7400 was the first Mac processor to include an AltiVec vector processing unit. The PowerPC 7455 was the first Mac processor over...
- auxiliary processing units like digital signal processors (DSPs) and the AltiVec extension. Book II – Virtual Environment Architecture defines the storage...
- 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...
- Compatible with 64-bit PowerPC ISA v.2.02 (POWER4 and PowerPC 970): 17  AltiVec SIMD functionality Branch Unit (BRU) Fixed Point Integer Unit (FXU) Load...
- have been brought to market under trade names such as MMX, 3DNow!, and AltiVec. On traditional architectures, an instruction includes an opcode that specifies...