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Integer instructions execute at twice the speed of the rest of the processor.
This revolutionary technology delivers a much higher performance instruction cache as well as makes more efficient use of cache memory storage. Overall, Intel has implemented some quite inventive solutions in the Pentium IV to attain clockspeeds in excess of 1.5 GHz. If properly supported and implemented, the new SSE2 instructions, the long pipeline, the trace cache and the improved branch prediction algorithms will all contribute to a CPU that could turn out to be a wolf in sheep s clothing. Skip Ahead 1 Introduction 2 SSE2, Streaming SIMD Extensions, etc. 3 Pipelining, Trace Cache, etc.