AMD extends x86 instruction set with SSE5

Posted on August 31st, 2007 at 2:09 am to iTWire by iTWire Staff
AMD's SSE5 extension to the x86 instruction set is designed to improve the performance of technical, multimedia and security applications.  Full story »

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