SSE is a SIMD instruction set that works only on floating point values, like 3DNow !.

Both AltiVec and SSE feature 128-bit vector registers that can represent sixteen 8-bit signed or unsigned chars, eight 16-bit signed or unsigned shorts, four 32-bit ints or four 32-bit floating point variables.

SSE contains 70 new instructions, most of which work on single precision floating point data.

SSE introduced both scalar and packed floating point instructions.

The most notable difference was the addition of the SSE instruction set ( to accelerate floating point and parallel calculations ), and the introduction of a controversial serial number embedded in the chip during the manufacturing process.

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Additions included DSP instructions and an implementation of the extended MMX subset of Intel SSE.

So Intel created a slightly modified version of Protected mode, called Enhanced mode which enables the usage of SSE instructions, whereas they stay disabled in regular Protected mode.

In some current architectures, the FPU functionality is combined with units to perform SIMD computation ; an example of this is the replacement of the x87 instructions set with SSE instruction set in the x86-64 architecture used in newer Intel and AMD processors.

A homogenous processor system typically requires extra registers for " special instructions " such as SIMD ( MMX, SSE etc.

SIMD instructions can be found, to one degree or another, on most CPUs, including the IBM's AltiVec and SPE for PowerPC, HP's PA-RISC Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions ( MAX ), Intel's MMX and iwMMXt, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 SSSE3 and SSE4. x, AMD's 3DNow !, ARC's ARC Video subsystem, SPARC's VIS and VIS2, Sun's MAJC, ARM's NEON technology, MIPS ' MDMX ( MaDMaX ) and MIPS-3D.

Thirty-two 128-bit vector registers are provided, compared to eight for SSE and SSE2 ( extended to 16 in x86-64 ), and most AltiVec instructions take three register operands compared to only two register / register or register / memory operands on IA-32.

SSE addressed the core shortcomings of MMX ( inability to mix integer-SIMD ops with any floating-point ops ) by creating a new 128-bit wide register file ( XMM0-XMM7 ) and new SIMD instructions for it.

AMD eventually added support for SSE instructions, starting with its Athlon XP and Duron ( Morgan core ) processors.

This means that the OS must know how to use the FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions, which is the extended pair of instructions which can save all x86 and SSE register states all at once.

While a compiled application can interleave FPU and SSE instructions side-by-side, the Pentium III will not issue an FPU and an SSE instruction in the same clock cycle.

Until SSE2, SSE integer instructions introduced with later SSE extensions could still operate on 64-bit MMX registers because the new XMM registers require operating system support.

Many programmers consider SSE2 to be " everything SSE should have been ", as SSE2 offers an orthogonal set of instructions for dealing with common data types.

* AVX ( Advanced Vector Extensions ) is an advanced version of SSE announced by Intel featuring a widened data path from 128 bits to 256 bits and 3-operand instructions ( up from 2 ).

Sometimes programmers must use several VIS instructions to accomplish an operation that can be done with only one MMX or SSE instruction, but it should be kept in mind that fewer instructions doesn't automatically result in better performance.

* Wireless MMX: 43 new SIMD instructions containing the full MMX instruction set and the integer instructions from Intel's SSE instruction set along with some instructions unique to the XScale.

** SSE ( Streaming SIMD Extension ) has restrictions on data alignment ; programmers familiar with the x86 architecture may not expect this.

Like 3DNow !, SSE focused exclusively on single-precision floating-point operations ( 32-bit ); integer SIMD operations were still performed using the MMX register and instruction set.

This design is very different from comparable extensions on CISC processors, such as MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4, 3DNow !.

It uses VIS on SPARC platforms ( and MMX / SSE / SSE2 on x86 / x64 platforms ) to accelerate multimedia application execution

In practice it is typical to use instructions which will execute on anything later than an Intel 80386 ( or fully compatible clone ) processor or else anything later than an Intel Pentium ( or compatible clone ) processor but in recent years various operating systems and application software have begun to require more modern processors or at least support for later specific extensions to the instruction set ( e. g. MMX, 3DNow !, SSE / SSE2 / SSE3 ).

However, this is over-shadowed by the value of being able to perform MMX operations on the wider SSE registers.

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The village of Vík ( or Vík í Mýrdal in full ) is the southernmost village in Iceland, located on the main ring road around the island, around by road SSE of Reykjavík.

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In October 2009 SSE announced that the renewable energy division of Airtricity would be rebranded as SSE Renewables as on 1 January 2010

The municipality's street plan is on a planned grid running from SSE to NNW and many of the houses are within sight of the Atlantic Ocean.

The MediaGX-derived processors lack modern features such as SSE and a large on-die L1 cache but these are offered on the more recent Athlon-derived Geode NX.

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* 2006-The SSE resumed full operation as the yearlong ban on IPOs was lifted in May.

Bonds traded on SSE include treasury bonds ( T-bond ), corporate bonds, and convertible corporate bonds.

However, the new XMM register-file allowed SSE SIMD-operations to be freely mixed with either MMX or x87 FPU ops.

SSE originally added eight new 128-bit registers known as XMM0 through XMM7.

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There would have been an improved version of Hyper-Threading, as well as a new version of SSE, which was later backported to the Intel Core 2 series after Tejas's cancellation and named SSSE3.

In February 2009, NuGeneration ( NuGen ), a consortium of GDF Suez, Iberdrola and Scottish and Southern Energy ( SSE ), announced plans to build a new nuclear power station of up to 3. 6GW capacity at Sellafield.

However programs needed to be specifically tailored for the new instructions and despite beating Intel's SSE instruction set to market, 3DNow achieved only limited popularity.

The base design was unchanged ( the addition of SSE instructions was at that time of no performance significance ) but Intel's new production process allowed clockspeed improvements, and it became difficult to determine which company's part was the faster.

SSE2 added 144 new instructions to SSE, which has 70 instructions.

The LUMS School of Science and Engineering ( SSE ) is a new school within LUMS with undergraduate programs in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics ; and graduate programs in Computer Science and Mathematics.

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Other new technologies include 1 cycle throughput ( 2 cycles previously ) of all 128-bit SSE instructions and a new power saving design.