[X4U] Re: New Pentium Macs (Altivec)

[Kuestner, Bjoern]

> Does anyone manufacture a SIMD computer?

Both SSE and Altivec units implement SIMD (or vector processing).

If your question is whether one computer architecture specifically focuses
on SIMD vs. having it just as a mere add-on: Cray was a big name in this
area. Now NEC is. Also DSPs are implementations of stand-alone SIMD
processors.

As usual in IT issues, Wikipedia is a good reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_processor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processor

Björn

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