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<strong>Power</strong> ISA Competitive Differentiation<br />
POWER ARM MIPS* x86**<br />
64-bit Addressing Yes No Yes Yes<br />
SIMD Ops/Instr† 8 FP, 16 int 4 FP, 8 int 4 FP, 4 int 8 FP, 16 int<br />
SIMD Registers 64 x 128 bits 16 x 128 bits 32 x 64 bits 16 x 128 bits<br />
SIMD FP Is IEEE Compliant Not Compliant Compliant<br />
Hypervisor Yes Yes No Yes<br />
<strong>Power</strong> Mgmt Yes No†† No†† No††<br />
Multithreading Yes No Yes Yes<br />
*Includes optional MDMX and MT extensions<br />
**Includes Sandy Bridge but not future CPUs<br />
†Single-precision floating point, 16-bit integer<br />
operations;<br />
includes only addition and multiplication<br />
operations<br />
††Implementation-dependent feature<br />
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