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SSE3, was also known by its Intel code name Prescott New Instructions or PNI is the third iteration of the SSE instruction set for the IA-32 architecture. It is a SIMD instruction set.

The earlier SIMD sets on the x86 platform, from oldest to newest, are MMX, 3DNow! (used only by AMD), SSE and SSE2.

Intel introduced SSE3 in early 2004 with the Prescott revision of their Pentium 4 CPU. It adds about 13 new instructions to the previous SSE2.

Parallel computing x86 microprocessors

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