Yes and no. SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) as a concept has nothing to do with x86, it's basically just the concept of vectorizing the code and is used on many platforms.
The x86 SIMD extensions such as SSE and AVX, on the other hand, aim to integrate that concept with x86 and are therefore pretty similar.
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Yes and no. SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) as a concept has nothing to do with x86, it's basically just the concept of vectorizing the code and is used on many platforms.
The x86 SIMD extensions such as SSE and AVX, on the other hand, aim to integrate that concept with x86 and are therefore pretty similar.