Comment by nojokepoke
5 hours ago
What’s often overlooked is that adoption of MMX was slooooow. Intel compiler were the only intrinsic data types for years. The big win was DirectX 3 audio drivers that used premade Intel libraries. It took at least five to ten years for SIMD to catch on, but the never stopped Intel from evolving it. Then they lost the GPU wars lol rip larabeee.
MMX had heavy adoption in image and video processing. IDCT, motion prediction/compensation, YUV/RGB conversion, and alpha blending all benefited from it.
Thanks for the reminder. Yes Intel was touting high bit rates in software compared to the matrox millennium hardware 2d accelerator.
And now the legacy of Larrabee, AVX-512, is only properly available on AMD for consumers :D