August 18, 2010

AMD introduced the 3DNow! ™ instruction set back in the K6-2 days to do Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions, otherwise known as vectorized instructions. These were mainly used for graphics intensive applications and even audio processing. Since then, we have added many SIMD instruction sets to our processors, such as the widely used Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instruction set and its successive versions.
3DNow! instructions are being deprecated and will not be supported in certain upcoming AMD processors.

Read the full article here: http://blogs.amd.com/developer/2010/...ow-deprecated/