Proper noun
MMX
(computing) Initialism of Matrix Math eXtensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.
3DNow! was designed to be the natural evolution of MMX from integers to floating point. Source: Internet
A homogeneous processor system typically requires extra registers for "special instructions" such as SIMD (MMX, SSE, etc.), while a heterogeneous system can implement different types of hardware for different instructions/uses. Source: Internet
AMD and Intel settled, with AMD acknowledging MMX as a trademark owned by Intel, and with Intel granting AMD rights to market the AMD K6 MMX processor. Source: Internet
AMD and Intel settled, with AMD acknowledging MMX as a trademark owned by Intel, and with Intel granting AMD rights to use the MMX trademark as a technology name, but not a processor name. Source: Internet
Because it supports floating point math, it had a wider application than MMX and became more popular. Source: Internet
Given that the MMX's 64-bit MMn registers are aliased to the FPU stack and each of the floating point registers are 80 bits wide, the upper 16 bits of the floating point registers are unused in MMX. Source: Internet