MMX
From TPU Reference
licabasge bocchichidar pascnade ouerrelpasa MMX is a SIMD instruction set designed by Intel, introduced in 1997 in the Pentium MMX microprocessor. It is still widely used in chips made by many companies, even though SSE2 replaced it in 2001.
AMD modifided the MMX instruction set and released 3DNow! with their K6-2 processors in 1998.
Many individuals have taken MMX, which was not an acronym for anything, and made it a backronym to Multi-Media eXtensions or Matrix Math eXtensions.
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