Evolution of NSP

• Visual Instruction Set (VIS)

  • First NSP extension found on Sun’s UltraSPARC

• MMX

  • First x86 NSP extensions, created for Intel’s Pentium

• 3DNow!

  • Addition of FP SIMD instructions on AMD’s K6-2

• Altivec

  • Adds new CPU State for Motorola’s G4 PowerPC

• Streaming SIMD Extensions

  • New x86 FP SIMD for Intel’s Pentium III

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