MMX had heavy adoption in image and video processing. IDCT, motion prediction/compensation, YUV/RGB conversion, and alpha blending all benefited from it.
replyThanks for the reminder. Yes Intel was touting high bit rates in software compared to the matrox millennium hardware 2d accelerator.
replyAnd now the legacy of Larrabee, AVX-512, is only properly available on AMD for consumers :D
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