Matteo Pillon wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: > >> I can't tell you if this is normal, but sse3 isn't shown in my /proc/cpuinfo >> either (neither is it in Gentoo nor was it in Debian before I switched to >> Gentoo) (I have a Sempron 2800+). In some Benchmark program under W****** XP >> (I don't remeber which one) it was stated that my Processor has SSE3, so I >> guess it's a bug in the linux kernel. >> > > They aren't named sse3 in /proc/cpuinfo, they are 'pni' [1]. > I think they aren't named sse3 because they also include > hyperthreading-specific instructions (not sure about this, I don't > have Intel CPUs with sse3 to show evidences of this). > > Bye. > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_New_Instructions > > PS: you know why Intel named its processor with the highest TDP ever, > 'Prescott'? Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule > ;-). > > After some google digging I found "PNI = Prescott New Instructions = SSE3" Sempron 3300+ has PNI
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