AMD’s LLVM compiler has dropped support for the iconic 3DNow! instruction set, which was first rolled out with AMD’s K6-2 CPUs to compete with Intel’s competition at that time. AMD’s 3DNow! Instruction Set Took Multimedia and Graphics Capabilities To New Heights With The Old K6-2 CPUs, Support Now Ended AMD’s 3DNow! instruction set was a move to compete with Intel’s MMX instruction set, both of which are designed for multimedia and graphics applications on their respective processors. AMD’s iconic instruction set was initially released back in 1998, with the sole aim of competing with Intel in the battle of floating-point […]
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