
The ALU typically breaks instructions into two blocks, which results in two micro ops and thus two execution clock cycles. Intel now extended the execution width of the three ALUs and the load/store units to 128 bits, allowing for eight single precision or four double precision blocks to be processed per cycle. The feature is called Advanced Digital Media Boost, because it also applies to SSE instructions. This is called Single Cycle SSE and, for example, allows for merging four 32-bit element vectors into one 128-bit element.
Intel expects this to make a tremendous difference for all types of media processing applications (encoding, transcoding, compressing, etc.) and it even says the Core offers the highest IA computation density for vector processing.

- IDF Spring 2006: The Core Of Intel 3.0
- Intel's Energy Awakening
- Quad Cores In Multi-Chip Packages By 2007
- Core To The Rescue
- Wide Dynamic Execution
- Advanced Digital Media Boost
- Advanced Smart Cache
- Smart Memory Access
- Memory Disambiguation
- Intelligent Power Capability
- The Memory Controller Question
- There Is More To Save
- The Server Challenge
- Mashups To Drive Mobility
- Robson NAND Flash Or Hybrid Hard Drives?
- UMPC
- Conclusion