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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]
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 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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
One Year Ago: 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, 1998, 7:00]
AMD samples MMX K6 CPU
News Beating its deadline by a month, AMD has begun sampling its first processor with MMX instructions, codenamed the K6. The K6 will initially be offered at 166MHz, 180MHz and 200MHz frequencies and will compete with Intel's 'Klamath' Pentium Pro with...
[November 14, 1996, 10:50]
Networld+Interop: Dual offers sub-£1K MMX notebook
News Dual's Minerva is a 133MHz MMX-based unit with 16Mb EDO RAM, 1.4Mb hard drive, sound, 12.1-inch dual-scan screen, nickel metal hydride battery and Windows 95. It costs £999 + VAT. Dual Technology: 01223-576622
[October 29, 1997, 14:34]
MMX set for January 7 release
News MMX chips contain 57 new instructions that accelerate multimedia performance. The delayed parts will miss Christmas but be available in PCs immediately on the day of announcement. Formerly known by the P55C code-name, the chips will run at 166MHz...
[October 17, 1996, 11:35]
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]
Tosh fires 13.3-inch TFT, MMX salvo; mulls tiny PC
News The top-end 740CDT (£4,995 + VAT) includes a 166MHz MMX Pentium processor, 16Mb EDO RAM, 2.16Mb hard drive, ten-speed CD-ROM drive, 28,800bps modem, two CardBus slots with Zoomed Video (ZV Port)support and, most significantly, a huge 13.3-inch 1...
[January 27, 1997, 12:05]
Five years ago: Intel puts MMX, Ultra DMA, AGP into chipsets
News As exclusively revealed in PCDN last month, the chip giant will release a new chipset called the 440TX for MMX and vanilla Pentium processors early in 1997, to replace today's 430VX in mainstream desktops .
[September 16, 2001, 8:30]
Compaq adds MMX to transportable PC
News The 3060 model adds the benefit of a 200MHz Pentium MMX processor. Like the firm's original transportable, the Presario 3020, the desktop unit has a very small footprint and dispenses with a CRT monitor so it can be moved around the home.
[April 28, 1997, 10:30]
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]
A Year Ago: 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, 1998, 9:49]
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]
