Velocity Engine

E216072

Apple marketing term SIMD instruction set extension vector processing unit

Velocity Engine is Apple’s marketing name for the AltiVec vector processing unit used to accelerate multimedia and scientific computations in PowerPC-based Macs.

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Label	Occurrences
Velocity Engine canonical	5

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Apple marketing term ⓘ SIMD instruction set extension ⓘ vector processing unit ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	AltiVec ⓘ VMX ⓘ
architectureFamily	PowerPC ⓘ
associatedWith	PowerPC G5 ⓘ surface form: IBM PowerPC 970 series PowerPC 74xx ⓘ surface form: Motorola PowerPC 7400 series
basedOn	AltiVec ⓘ surface form: AltiVec technology
bitWidth	128-bit vector registers ⓘ
category	computer architecture feature ⓘ multimedia acceleration technology ⓘ
compatibleWith	PowerPC G4 ⓘ surface form: PowerPC G4 processors PowerPC G5 ⓘ surface form: PowerPC G5 processors
competingWith	3DNow! ⓘ surface form: AMD 3DNow! Intel SSE ⓘ
designedFor	high-throughput parallel data processing ⓘ
developedBy	Apple Inc. ⓘ
granularity	128-bit wide SIMD operations ⓘ
implements	SIMD vector instructions ⓘ
improves	floating-point performance ⓘ integer performance ⓘ
instructionSetType	RISC extension ⓘ
introducedBy	Apple Inc. ⓘ
introducedWith	PowerPC G4 ⓘ
marketedAs	Velocity Engine self-link ⓘ
marketingRegion	Apple Macintosh computers ⓘ surface form: Apple Macintosh platform
optimizationRequired	compiler vectorization or hand-tuned code ⓘ
purpose	accelerate multimedia computations ⓘ accelerate scientific computations ⓘ
registerType	vector registers ⓘ
supports	single-instruction multiple-data operations ⓘ vector floating-point operations ⓘ vector integer operations ⓘ
targetDomain	3D graphics ⓘ audio processing ⓘ digital media processing ⓘ image processing ⓘ video processing ⓘ
usedBy	Mac OS applications optimized for AltiVec ⓘ
usedIn	Power Mac G4 ⓘ surface form: Apple Power Mac G4 PowerBook ⓘ surface form: Apple PowerBook G4 Apple Xserve G4 ⓘ iMac G4 ⓘ surface form: Apple iMac G4 PowerPC-based Macintosh computers ⓘ
vendorNeutralName	AltiVec ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

AltiVec → alternativeName → Velocity Engine ⓘ

AltiVec → marketedAs → Velocity Engine ⓘ

VMX → alsoKnownAs → Velocity Engine ⓘ

Velocity Engine → marketedAs → Velocity Engine self-link ⓘ

Vector Multimedia Extension → alsoKnownAs → Velocity Engine ⓘ