Editing MMX (instruction set) (section)

{{Short description|Instruction set designed by Intel}}
{{About|the instruction set for Intel Pentium and Pentium II processors|the operating system that used the abbreviation name as the latest version|Windows 3.0}}

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[[File:PentiumMMX-presslogo.jpg|thumb|Pentium with MMX]]
'''MMX''' is a ''single instruction, multiple data'' ([[SIMD]]) [[instruction set architecture]] designed by [[Intel]], introduced on January 8, 1997<ref name=NYT.1997Jan09>{{cite news
 |author=<!-- Unstated: staff writer -->
 |date=January 9, 1997
 |title=Makers Unveil PCs With Intel's MMX Chip
 |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/010997intel.html
 |work=[[The New York Times]]
 |quote=Intel's new multimedia extension technology, called MMX, ...
 |access-date=January 13, 2019
 |archive-date=January 13, 2019
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232320/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/010997intel.html
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 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ch |first1=Rajiv |author2=rasekaran |date=January 8, 1997 |title=Intel to unveil faster Pentium chip |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/01/08/intel-to-unveil-faster-pentium-chip/9d6bdbd2-51b0-4a56-b24a-f4b1ee8b795e |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 13, 2019 |archive-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153329/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/01/08/intel-to-unveil-faster-pentium-chip/9d6bdbd2-51b0-4a56-b24a-f4b1ee8b795e/ |url-status=live }}</ref> with its [[Pentium]] [[P5 (microarchitecture)]] based line of [[microprocessor]]s, named "Pentium with MMX Technology".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/mmx/mmx.htm |title=Embedded Pentium Processors with MMX Technology |website=Intel |access-date=July 28, 2007 |archive-date=August 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811005125/http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/mmx/mmx.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It developed out of a similar unit introduced on the [[Intel i860]],<ref>{{cite journal
 |last1=Mittal
 |first1=Millind
 |last2=Peleg
 |first2=Alex
 |last3=Weiser
 |first3=Uri
 |date=1997
 |title=MMX Technology Architecture Overview
 |url=http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/research/1997-vol01-iss-3-intel-technology-journal.pdf
 |journal=Intel Technology Journal
 |volume=1
 |issue=3
 |access-date=October 29, 2015
 |archive-date=March 4, 2016
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111409/http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/research/1997-vol01-iss-3-intel-technology-journal.pdf
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref> and earlier the [[Intel i750]] video pixel processor. MMX is a [[processor supplementary capability]]  that is supported on [[IA-32]] processors by Intel and other vendors {{as of|1997|lc=y}}. AMD also added MMX instruction set in its [[AMD K6|K6]] processor.

''[[The New York Times]]'' described the initial push, including [[Super Bowl]] advertisements, as focused on "a new generation of glitzy multimedia products, including videophones and 3-D video games."<ref name=NYT.1997Jan24>{{cite news
 |last=Calem
 |first=Robert E.
 |date=January 24, 1997
 |title=Intel's MMX: The Technology Behind the Hoopla
 |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/012497intel.html
 |work=The New York Times
 |access-date=January 13, 2019
 |archive-date=January 13, 2019
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232421/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/012497intel.html
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref>

MMX has subsequently been extended by several programs by Intel and others: [[3DNow!]], [[Streaming SIMD Extensions]] (SSE), and ongoing revisions of [[Advanced Vector Extensions]] (AVX).