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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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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....
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auxiliary processing units like
digital signal processors (DSPs) and the
AltiVec extension. Book II –
Virtual Environment Architecture defines the storage...
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Machine Extensions,
instructions on
processors with x86
virtualization AltiVec, a
floating point and
integer SIMD
instruction set
called VMX by IBM vMX...
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technologies like the Vector-Media
Extensions known under the
brand name
AltiVec (also
called VMX by IBM) and
hardware virtualization. This new ISA was...
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similar to the
design of MMX than
other SIMD
architectures such as SSE/SSE2/
AltiVec. VIS
includes a
number of
operations primarily for
graphics support, so...
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Xenon X704
Related links OpenPOWER Foundation AIM
alliance RISC Blue Gene Power.org PAPR PReP CHRP
AltiVec Cancelled in gray,
historic in
italic v t e...
