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Rock rolls out 13.3-inch TFT, MMX power
News The huge Panasonic panel is part of the firm's latest Mentor line which also packs 166MHz or 200MHz Pentium MMX processors. A 200MHz Pentium MMX with 48Mb EDO RAM (expandable to 80Mb), 256Kb pipeline burst-mode cache, 13.3-inch XGA TFT screen...
[February 20, 1997, 11:32]
MMX PCs due in UK October
News Intel's MMX will arrive in UK PCs in early October, putting multimedia at the heart of CPU processing. Often known by the P55C code-name, the MMX chips will go straight into consumer-targeted systems in the fourth quarter.
[August 5, 1996, 11:44]
MMX buyers face tough choices
News The first half of the year could create some tough buying decisions for companies looking to tap the power of the first generation of MMX processors. At the annual show in California, Intel demonstrated what it will call the Pentium Processor with...
[October 23, 1996, 15:32]
Cyrix to add 3D, MMX to MediaGX
News The MXi will be based on a new core that Cyrix calls Cayenne and will provide fully pipelined floating point and an MMX unit with 15 new multimedia floating point instructions; Cyrix has often been criticised in the past for the MMX and, more...
[October 16, 1997, 14:39]
MMX will go straight to the heart of PC buyers
News "We think MMX will take the high-end of the Pentium market very quickly," said Jez Deacon technical director of London-based Carrera Technology. We'll assess the position at the end of the first quarter but we expect MMX to quickly become entry-level.
[December 18, 1996, 16:53]
MMX will wait on optimised apps - AMD
News AMD said today it will add MMX instructions to its chips for the first time at the turn of the year, although it doesn't expect the algorithms to contribute much to software performance until the second half of 1997.
[August 6, 1996, 11:10]
MMX chips may not meet hype
News The US's PC Magazine Labs got an early peek when Hewlett-Packard accidentally sent in a system housing a 200MHz MMX chip for a group review. At first the unit was not discovered as an MMX, thanks to the CPU being covered deep in the system's bowels.
[September 26, 1996, 15:13]
A Year Ago: MMX buyers face tough choices
News The first half of the year could create some tough buying decisions for companies looking to tap the power of the first generation of MMX processors. At the annual show in California, Intel demonstrated what it will call the Pentium Processor with...
[October 23, 1997, 9:21]
A Year Ago Today: MMX set for January 7 release
News Intel's first Pentium processors with the MMX instruction set will ship January 7, according to sources. MMX chips contain 57 new instructions that accelerate multimedia performance. The delayed parts will miss Christmas but be available in PCs...
[October 17, 1997, 9:00]
ACi notebook sports MMX, XGA LCD, USB
News The Wembley, London-based direct seller's latest Meteor notebook is based on a 200MHz MMX processor and supports a 13.3-inch 1,024 x 768 screen and USB port. ACi has also begun shipping a 166MHz Pentium MMX-based slimline notebook with 16Mb RAM...
[April 21, 1997, 11:11]
Rivals say AMD/Intel MMX war will go on
News While AMD took its battle to the courts, Cyrix did a deal with Intel which allowed it to use the MMX term with proper attribution. What it comes down to is ensuring that we and our customers can use the MMX trademark in promotional and marketing...
[April 3, 1997, 10:19]
Kewney: Of MMX and Acronyms
News He's referring to the multimedia enhancements, which are trademarked under the name MMX. Of course, MMX is not an acronym. Intel has sued both Cyrix and AMD for using the phrase "MMX", saying that the two companies were adopting "strategies to...
[March 18, 1997, 15:48]
Xing adds MMX, Web savvy to MPEG software
News The XingMPEG Encoder2 adds support for MMX processors and smaller file sizes designed to make it more useful for working the Web. AVI and WAV files can be converted to MPEG and Xing claims that a minute of video can be encoded in 45 seconds.
[May 9, 1997, 14:41]
AMD plans K6 MMX massacre
News However, with a 64Kb cache - twice that of the Intel Pentium with MMX - the K6 is expected to produce better performance figures, particularly with non-MMX enabled applications. It will be positioned against Intel's Klamath-codenamed Pentium Pro...
[January 23, 1997, 14:17]
AMD free to use MMX term
News A shadow was removed from AMD's K6 processor launch planned for late today when the chip maker announced it is now free to use the MMX name in marketing and advertising copy. A federal judge in the US has turned down Intel's request for a temporary...
[April 2, 1997, 12:09]
Dell Latitude XPi CD MMX ESS 1887 Win3.x Audio Driver
Downloads This self-extracting file contains the Windows 3.x ESS 1887 audio driver (ESS version 4.17.11) for the Latitude XPi CD MxxxST (MMX). After downloading and extracting this file, make the diskette by placing a formatted disk in drive a:, go to the...
[May 29, 1998, 2:42]
One Year Ago: Compaq adds MMX to transportable PC
News The 3060 model adds the benefit of a 200MHz Pentium MMX processor. Compaq is continuing to plough the lone furrow of transportable PCs by releasing the Presario 3060. Like the firm's original transportable, the Presario 3020, the desktop unit has a...
[April 28, 1998, 6:00]
Intel, AMD bury MMX hatchet
News Under terms of an agreement announced yesterday, AMD will acknowledge MMX as an Intel trademark and in return gain the rights to use the term in marketing materials. AMD and PC vendors who use its K6 processor can use phrases like "MMX(tm) Enabled...
[April 23, 1997, 11:11]
Dan offers MMX systems for same price as Pentium
News London-based direct sales PC vendor Dan Technology is offering its 166MHz MMX Pentium-based systems at the same price as their vanilla equivalents until the end of January. Dan will also greet the MMX with three new lines: the Ultimate/mmx...
[January 13, 1997, 10:34]
UK Patent Office backs US MMX ruling
News The Patent Office ruled that MMX "is a term that is customary in the trade" and said "the application was accepted in error". We are delighted that common sense has prevailed," said Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for PC products at AMD.
[April 2, 1997, 12:22]
