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Intel Corp.’s central processing units (CPUs) due to be released in the second half of next-year will not only be made using 45nm process technology, but will also incorporate 50 new instructions that will boost performance of multimedia and web applications.

During Intel Developer Forum Fall 2006 the world’s largest chipmaker revealed plans for more than 50 new SSE4 instructions, extending the Intel 64 instruction set architecture [formerly called IA32e – X-bit labs] “to better take advantage of Intel’s next-generation 45nm silicon manufacturing process and expand the performance and capabilities of Intel Architecture.”

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