from www.tomshardware.com
Intel's new Pentium III
The Pentium III, also known under the code name 'Katmai', does not come with
a feature that would show an immediate performance increase as in case of
the K6-3. Its basic core as well as the L2-cache architecture is identical
to the Pentium II processor. The justification for the new name lies in a
set of 70 new multimedia instructions, once known as 'KNI', now known as
'SSE' standing for 'streaming SIMD extensions'. Those new instructions
enable the CPU to perform floating-point calculations on multiple data at
the same time, which proves very helpful for 3D graphics, video encoding and
decoding and other floating point intensive applications that operate on
large sets of data.
Can this be helpfull for searching Mersenne primes???
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