What does "sse2" mean?

Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture building off the earlier SSE and intended to completely replace the older MMX and 3DNow! extensions.

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Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture building off the earlier SSE and intended to completely replace the older MMX and 3DNow! extensions. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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