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Rapid Execution Engine
Part of the Pentium® 4 processor's Intel® NetBurst® micro-architecture. Two Arithmetic Logic
Units (ALUs) are clocked at twice the core processor frequency, allowing basic integer
instructions such as Add, Subtract, Logical AND, and Logical OR to execute in half of a clock
cycle. For example, the Rapid Execution Engine on a 1.50 GHz Pentium 4 processor runs at 3
GHz.
S-ATA (Serial ATA)
Serial ATA is the next-generation internal storage interconnect designed to replace Parallel ATA
technology. Serial ATA is the proactive evolution of the ATA interface from a parallel bus to a
serial bus architecture. This architecture overcomes many design and usage constraints that
are increasing the difficulty of continued speed enhancements for the classic parallel ATA bus.
Serial ATA will be introduced at 150Mbytes/sec, with a roadmap already planned through
600Mbytes/sec.
Shadow Memory
The BIOS is normally stored in ROM. On certain systems it can be copied to RAM on power up
to make it go faster. This RAM is known as shadow memory. The System BIOS is responsible
for this copying.
SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions)
Internet Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions are instructions that
reduce the overall number of instructions required to execute a particular program task. As a
result, they can boost performance by accelerating a broad range of applications, including
video, speech, and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific
applications. NetBurst® micro-architecture adds 144 new SSE instructions, which are known as
SSE2.
Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
Better multimedia and encryption/decryption processing than previous generations, along with
support for more computationally intensive graphics.
Super VGA
Additional screen modes and capabilities provided over and above the standard VGA defined
by IBM.
VGA
Video Graphics Array - the graphics standard defined by IBM and provided on IBM's PS/2
machines.
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