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The MAX-1 were released with PA-RISC 7100LC in 1994. It is usually pointed as the first SIMD extension to be integrated in a microprocessor. The MAX-2 appeared in the PA-8000 processor. These computational units offer an instruction set to allow SIMD processing of 16-bit integers packed in general proupose registers. The available functionality includes additions, subtractions and shifts. |
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