San Jose, CA; Intel Development Forum — (press release excerpt) — Intel Corp. today introduced Intel Wireless MMX technology, to help bring the richness and exciting content of PC applications to wireless and handheld products using Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) building blocks.

“Intel Wireless MMX technology helps bring desktop-like multimedia capabilities to the Intel XScale technology in a way that helps increase performance while minimizing the power needed to run rich applications,” said Ron Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Wireless Communications and Computing Group.

Intel Wireless MMX technology is an advanced set of multimedia instructions taken in large part from the Intel Architecture, helping to enable developers to bring the power of a proven, 64-bit, parallel, multimedia architecture to future processors based on the Intel XScale microarchitecture. This will assist existing PC application developers already familiar with Intel MMX technology to easily port their multimedia-rich software to Intel PCA. For those creating applications specifically for the wireless and handheld market segments, this provides a general-purpose set of multimedia instructions that will help enable developers to rapidly bring advanced multimedia and security applications such as, 2D and 3D gaming, streaming MPEG4 video, wireless encryption/decryption, voice recognition and digital editing to market.

Intel Wireless MMX is the latest technology in a full suite of common tools and capabilities for developing applications across Intel architectures. Intel and key third parties will provide developers with a comprehensive set of development and optimization tools to speed the creation of optimized applications using Intel Wireless MMX instructions. The new Intel XScale Microarchitecture Software Development Tools debuts in beta today and include a compiler, debuggers, and simulators with Intel Wireless MMX technology support. To further extend the portability of applications from the PC, optimization tools like Intel VTune Performance Analyzer and Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, used today, are expected to support Intel Wireless MMX instructions in upcoming versions. Participants in the Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture Developer Network will have early access to these tools to begin software development.

Intel Wireless MMX technology is supported by leading operating systems including WindowsCE.NET 4.1, SymbianOS, Palm OSv.5, and Linux from MontaVista and Lineo (a.k.a. Embedix).

Additional information on Intel Wireless MMX technology is available on Intel's developer website, here.

 
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