Extending the World’s Most Popular Processor Architecture with New Instructions

From the original Intel® 8086 to the recent additionof Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3(Supplemental SSE3) found in Intel® Core™2 Duoprocessors, Intel has led the charge in expandingthe capabilities of the world’s most popular andbroadly used computer architecture—Intel® architecture.Intel will soon add new instructions enabling ourmicroprocessors across all volume market segmentsto deliver even greater performance and energyefficiency to a broad range of 32-bit and64-bit applications.