https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809977#M871 &gt;&gt;&gt;@Sergey If you are interested here is a link http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/07/intel_uses_russia_military_techn...&gt;&gt;&gt; Good article in russian about the Vladimir Pentkovsky and his work on Elbrus processors :http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/e2k-spec.html He could be regarded as a "father" of Pentium architecture and designer of SIMD unit by bringing to Intel his vast knowledge from his previous work. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:32:00 GMT Bernard 2012-12-23T07:32:00Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809974#M868 <P>This is a brief historical outlook of the <STRONG>Intel</STRONG> <STRONG>SSE</STRONG> technology and how <STRONG>SEE</STRONG> is supported by different versions<BR />of <STRONG>Microsoft</STRONG>'s <STRONG>Visual Studios</STRONG>.</P><P>First of all:</P><P> <STRONG>SSE</STRONG> - Streaming <STRONG>SIMD</STRONG> Extensions</P><P>and</P><P> <STRONG>SIMD</STRONG> - Single Instruction Multiple Data</P><P><STRONG>SSE</STRONG> was introduced in 1999, or so,for <STRONG>Intel</STRONG> <STRONG>Pentium III</STRONG> series processors as a response to <STRONG>AMD's 3DNow!</STRONG> technology.</P><P>Some time in 1999 <STRONG>Microsoft</STRONG> added a support for <STRONG>SSE</STRONG> in<STRONG>Visual C++ 6.0</STRONG> ( released in 1998 ) with<BR />a special addon called as <STRONG>Visual C++ 6.0 Processor Pack</STRONG>.</P><P>How didsome core <STRONG>SSE</STRONG> header fileslook like<STRONG>13</STRONG> years ago?</P><P> Please take a look at enclosed header files from <STRONG>Visual C++ 6.0 Processor Pack</STRONG>:</P><P> emmintrin.h<BR /> mmintrin.h<BR /> xmmintrin.h</P><P>How did a support for <STRONG>SSE</STRONG> evolve over the years?</P><P> The following comparison table shows how <STRONG>SEE</STRONG> is supported by different versions of <STRONG>Microsoft</STRONG>'s<BR /> <STRONG>Visual Studios</STRONG>:</P><P> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR /> | <STRONG>Header/IDE </STRONG> | <STRONG>VS98</STRONG> | <STRONG>VS2005</STRONG> | <STRONG>VS2008</STRONG> | <STRONG>VS2010</STRONG> | <STRONG>Notes</STRONG> |<BR /> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR /> | intrin.h |- | + | + | + | Declarations of platform specific intrinsic functions|<BR /> | emmintrin.h|+ | + | + | + | Principal header file |<BR /> | mmintrin.h |+ | + | + | + | Definitions and declarations for use with compiler intrinsics |<BR /> | xmmintrin.h|+ | + | + | + | Principal header file for SIMD Extensions intrinsics |<BR /> | pmmintrin.h| - | - | + | + | Declarations for SSE3 intrinsics |<BR /> | smmintrin.h|- | - | + | + | Declarations for SSE4.1 intrinsics |<BR /> | nmmintrin.h| - | - | + | + | Declarations for SSE4.2 intrinsics |<BR /> | tmmintrin.h| - | - | + | + | Declarations for intrinsic functions ( horizonally packed types ) |<BR /> | wmmintrin.h| - | - | + | + | Principal header file for AES and PCLMULQDQ intrinsics |<BR /> | immintrin.h| - | - | - | + | Declarations for AVX intrinsics |<BR /> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</P><P>Happy birthday <STRONG>SSE</STRONG>!</P> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:47:08 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809974#M868 SergeyKostrov 2012-02-14T17:47:08Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809975#M869 For the sake of afairness I also attached another file that <STRONG>Visual C++ Processor Pack</STRONG> installs.<BR />This is a '<STRONG>mm3dnow.h</STRONG>' header file to support <STRONG>AMD's 3DNow!</STRONG> technology.<BR /> Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:24:02 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809975#M869 SergeyKostrov 2012-02-26T00:24:02Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809976#M870 IIRC in late sixties soviet engineers developed the concept of superscalar processing engine.From the other source I know that the first was Burroughs with its superscalar architecture.Sadly there is no information regarding who pioneered SIMD-like vector units . @Sergey If you are interested here is a link <A href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/07/intel_uses_russia_military_technologies/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/07/intel_uses_russia_military_technologies/</A> Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:52:00 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809976#M870 Bernard 2012-12-22T13:52:00Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809977#M871 &gt;&gt;&gt;@Sergey If you are interested here is a link http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/06/07/intel_uses_russia_military_techn...&gt;&gt;&gt; Good article in russian about the Vladimir Pentkovsky and his work on Elbrus processors :http://www.ixbt.com/cpu/e2k-spec.html He could be regarded as a "father" of Pentium architecture and designer of SIMD unit by bringing to Intel his vast knowledge from his previous work. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:32:00 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/The-dawn-of-the-Intel-SSE-technology/m-p/809977#M871 Bernard 2012-12-23T07:32:00Z