
17-6
x86 MICROPROCESSORS
includes 50 new instructions, which enable simultaneous, advanced calculations of more
floating-point numbers with a single instruction. It accelerates performance on a wide
variety of applications like video, audio, 3D graphics and image processing. Later pro-
cessors added more capabilities to the SSE set under the titles of SSE2, SSE3 and SSES4.
17.5 | Pentium-IV
In November 2000, Intel introduced its seventh generation processor Pentium-IV, which
had high clock speeds (starting from 1.5 GHz) as an important feature, and a totally new
microarchitecture. This was designated as ‘Netburst’ and the following new features ...