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- <font size=6><font color="red">I</font></font>ntel has made a firm commitment to the architecture
- - all of
- its processors from now on will include MMX - designed to allow
- several multimedia tasks, such as frame manipulations, to be carried
- out simultaneously.
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- <font size=6><font color="red">A</font></font>ndy Grove,
- Intel's president, said at Comdex
- last year that the PC industry must fight television to catch
- the consumer's eye.
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- <font size=6><font color="red">W</font></font>hich is why MMX has been
- designed to deliver
- lifelike colour, full-screen video and graphics,
- <a href="http://www.mmx.com/mmx/software/body_s.htm"> real-time animation</a>
- and image manipulation and 3D audio.
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- <font size=6><font color="red">B</font></font>ut at the moment it's a
- technology in search of an application.
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- <font size=6><font color="red">M</font></font>MX
- will not improve
- the performance of existing software, but instead requires code
- to be written specially for it.
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- <font size=6><font color="red">F</font></font>or
- almost any other supplier
- this bleeding edge approach could create a problem, but Intel
- owns the market, and therefore, by definition controls it.
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- will buy MMX but the real question is when?
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