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AltiVec

AltiVec is a single-precision floating-point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector) — the AIM alliance. It is implemented on versions of the PowerPC processor architecture, including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P.A. Semi's…

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AltiVec

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Avg. degree1.97
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AltiVec

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related to history · 23
AltiVec → Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, Apple's Mac OS, CPUs, Extension, G4, G5, IBM, Intel-made, June, Motorola, Other, POWER, Power Vector Media Extension, PowerPC, Quartz, QuickTime, The, The Power Vector Media
related to Comparison to x86-64 SSE · 13
AltiVec → Both, Both VMX/AltiVec, However, IA-32, In, PowerPC's RISC, RGB, SSE, SSE2, They, Thirty-two, Unlike SSE2, VMX/AltiVec
related to External links · 11
AltiVec → Apple, Engine, Freescale, IBM, Introducing, Part, PowerPC SIMD, SIMD, Technologies, Unrolling AltiVec, Wayback Machine
related to Issues · 10
AltiVec → For, GCC, GCC-, However, In, Power ISA, Power6, Standard Template Libraryvector, The, VSX
related to VMX128 · 7
AltiVec → IBM, The, VMX, VMX/Altivec, VMX128, Xbox, Xenon
has application · 5
AltiVec → Helios, POWER10, POWER9, The, VMX
is a · 4
AltiVec → brandname trademarked by Freescale, single-precision floating-point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, standard part of the Power ISA v.2.03 specification, trademark owned solely by Freescale
related to Implementations · 3
AltiVec → The, VMX, VMX128

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vector vmx ibm power isa also apple motorola used extension freescale part instruction powerpc registers instructions vsx power6 data introduced

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AltiVecis asingle-precision floating-point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple0.90text
AltiVecis atrademark owned solely by Freescale0.90text
AltiVecis astandard part of the Power ISA v.2.03 specification0.90text
AltiVecis abrandname trademarked by Freescale0.90text
QuickTimeinstance ofThey used it to accelerate multimedia applications0.80text
iTunesinstance ofThey used it to accelerate multimedia applications0.80text
key parts of Apple's Mac OS X including in the Quartz graphics compositorinstance ofThey used it to accelerate multimedia applications0.80text
Adobe Photoshopinstance ofOther companies such as Adobe used AltiVec to optimize their image-processing programs0.80text
AltiVechas applicationThe0.60section
AltiVechas applicationVMX0.60section
AltiVechas applicationHelios0.60section
AltiVechas applicationPOWER90.60section

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