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Enhanced Floating Point and Multimedia Unit
Part of the Pentium® 4 processor's Intel® NetBurst® micro-architecture. An expanded 128-bit
floating point register and an additional register for data movement improves performance on
floating-point and multimedia applications.
Execution Trace Cache (Level 1 Execution Trace Cache)
Part of the Pentium® 4 processor's Intel® NetBurst® micro-architecture. In addition to the 8 KB
data cache, the Pentium 4 processor includes an Execution Trace Cache that stores up to 12 K
decoded micro-ops in the order of program execution. This increases performance by removing
the decoder from the main execution loop and makes more efficient usage of the cache storage
space since instructions that are branched around are not stored. As a result, a high volume of
instructions are delivered to the processor's execution units and the overall time required to
recover from erroneous branch predictions is decreased.
FDC
Floppy Disk Controller - the interface for connecting floppy disk drives to the computer.
Hercules
A monochrome graphics video mode which first appeared in the Hercules graphics card.
Provides a resolution of 720 by 348 pixels.
Hyper-Pipelined Technology
Part of the Pentium® 4 processor's Intel® NetBurst® micro-architecture. Hyper-pipelined
technology doubles the pipeline depth of the Pentium® III processor's P6 micro-architecture,
increasing the branch prediction and recovery pipeline to 20 stages. The deeper pipeline
enables instructions to be queued and executed at the fastest-possible rate, increasing
performance, frequency, and scalability.
IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics - currently the most popular type of interface for hard disk drives.
Much of the circuitry previously required on hard disk controller cards is now integrated on the
hard disk itself.
Interface
The electronics providing a connection between two pieces of equipment. For example, a
printer interface connects a computer to a printer.
Interlace
The mode the graphics card uses to refresh a monitor screen. When the graphics is in interlace
mode, the frequency of the display update is lower than in non-interlace mode. This causes a
slight flicker, so generally non-interlaced mode is better if the monitor supports it.
Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions
Consists of 70 instructions and includes single instruction, multiple data for floating-point,
additional SIMD-integer and cache ability control instructions. Benefits include higher resolution
image viewing and manipulation, high quality audio, MPEG2 video, and simultaneous MPEG2
encoding and decoding, reduced CPU utilisation for speech recognition, and higher accuracy
and faster response times