Multithreading technology (such as Intel’s Hyperthreading or AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading) provides better performance by dividing each of the processor’s physical cores into virtual cores, also known as threads. In this way each core can execute two threads of instructions at the same time.
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AES is used to speed up encryption and decryption.
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AVX is used to help speed up calculations in multimedia, scientific, and financial applications, as well as to improve the performance of Linux software RAID.
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SSE is used to speed up multimedia tasks such as image editing or adjusting audio volume. Each new version contains new instructions and improvements.
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F16C is used to speed up tasks like adjusting the contrast of an image or adjusting the volume.
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NEON provides media processing acceleration, such as listening to MP3 music.
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MMX is used to speed up tasks like adjusting the contrast of an image or adjusting the volume.
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A technology built into the processor to secure the device for use with features such as mobile payments and video streaming using digital rights management (DRM).
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The CPU can decode more instructions per clock cycle (IPC), which means the CPU has better performance
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