Wikipedia: History of IA32

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IA32 is the instruction set architecture for the Intel 80386 compatible series of microprocessors. This set is implemented in all x86 CPUs, with the [Pentium MMX]? adding a few multimedia-specific (MMX) operations, and the Pentium III adding SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions). Pentuim IV adds more...

IA32 is the instruction set architecture for the Intel 80386 compatible series of microprocessorss. This set is implemented in all x86 CPUs newer than the 80386.

Each generation of CPUs since has added several features to this set:
* The 80486 added a Floating Point Unit of its own that enabled it to do floating point calculations via hardware.
* [Pentium MMX]? added a set of extensions called MMX? that can be used, among other things, to optimize multimedia software running on it.
* Pentium III adding SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions)

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