The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy

Chapter 56. Pentium^® 4 Software Enhancements

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This chapter provides a detailed description of FSB signal that were not described in earlier chapters.

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This chapter provides a detailed description of the software enhancements implemented in the Pentium® 4 processor. This includes:

• Miscellaneous New Instructions.

• Enhanced CPUID Instruction.

• The SSE2 Instruction Set.

• The SSE3 Instruction Set.

• Local APIC Enhancements.

• The Thermal Monitoring Facilities.

• FPU Enhancement.

• The MSRs.

• The Machine Check Architecture.

• Last Branch, Interrupt, and Exception Recording.

• The Debug Store (DS) Mechanism.

• New Exceptions.

• The Performance Monitoring Facility.

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