Quote Originally Posted by Carfax
I guess they mean Nehalem could get a REAL vector unit. Right now, Intel uses SSEn which is basically an FPU that can do vector instructions aswell.

If Intel takes technology from the Alpha EV8 for Vector, we could see a dedicated vector unit on the die which would be much more powerful than SSEn.

The benefits would be that anything which could be vectorized would see a massive speed up..

Faster encoding/decoding, frames per second, :banana::banana::banana::banana: surfing
So I am not understanding. In nehalem your saying Intel could add a vector unit . But it would also keep the SSEn units. As we are all aware that Intel has added sse4 instruction set to penryn 30 instructions and nehalem another 20 instructions for a total of 50 instructions . Would this still work with the vector units?