x86 Assembly/3DNow!

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3DNow! is AMD's extension of the MMX instruction set (K6-2 and more recent) for with floating-point instruction. The instruction set never gained much popularity, and AMD announced on August 2010 that support for 3DNow! will be dropped in future AMD processors, except for two instructions.