13.1. 13.1 Chapter Overview
While working on the Pentium and Pentium Pro processors, Intel was also developing an instruction set architecture extension for multimedia applications. By studying several existing multimedia applications, by developing lots of multimedia related algorithms, and through simulation, Intel developed 57 instructions that would greatly accelerate the execution of multimedia applications. The end result was the multimedia extensions to the Pentium processor that Intel calls the MMX Technology Instructions.
Prior to the invention of the MMX enhancements, good-quality multimedia systems required separate digital signal processors and special electronics to handle much of the multimedia workload.[161] The introduction of the ...
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