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Following [[AMD]]'s acquisition of [[NexGen]] in [[1995]] and the success from the release of {{amd|K6}} (a rebranding of NegGen's {{nexgen|Nx686}}), AMD had the financial means of developing the [[microarchitecture]] further. With the '''K6-2''' family, AMD took the much safer and more straightforward approach  approach and improved on K6 by adding a number new features as well as improving its overall performance, instead of a complete redesign.
 
Following [[AMD]]'s acquisition of [[NexGen]] in [[1995]] and the success from the release of {{amd|K6}} (a rebranding of NegGen's {{nexgen|Nx686}}), AMD had the financial means of developing the [[microarchitecture]] further. With the '''K6-2''' family, AMD took the much safer and more straightforward approach  approach and improved on K6 by adding a number new features as well as improving its overall performance, instead of a complete redesign.
  
AMD increased and improved much of the {{amd|microarchitecures/k6|K6 microarchitecure}} by adding a number of additional units boosting the overall performance. The K6-2 was AMD's first series of processors to offer {{x86|3DNow!}}, an [[x86]] extension that offered [[floating point]] SIMD instructions. The addition of {{x86|3DNow!}} gave floating point calculations a serious performance boost and a much necessery boost since [[Intel]] usually dominated the area of fast [[x87]] applications. Despite being the first to introduce a series of [[SIMD]] instructions, 3DNow! never gained as much popularity as {{x86|SSE}} did, a later implementation by [[Intel]].
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AMD increased and improved much of the {{amd|microarchitecures/k6|K6 microarchitecure}} by adding a number of additional units boosting the overall performance. The K6-2 was AMD's first series of processors to offer {{x86|3DNow!}}, an [[x86]] extension that offered [[floating point]] SIMD instructions. The addition of {{x86|3DNow!}} gave floating point calculations a serious performance boost and a much necessery boost since [[Intel]] usually dominated the area of fast [[x87]] applications. Despite being the first to introduce a series of [[SIMD]] instructions, 3DNow! never gained as much popularity as {{x86|SEE}} did, a later implementation by [[Intel]].
  
 
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Facts about "K6-2 - AMD"
designerAMD +
first announcedMay 28, 1998 +
first launchedJune 1998 +
full page nameamd/k6-2 +
instance ofmicroprocessor family +
instruction set architectureIA-32 +
main designerAMD +
manufacturerAMD +
microarchitectureK6-2 +
nameAMD K6-2 +
packageCPGA-321 + and CBGA-360 +
process250 nm (0.25 μm, 2.5e-4 mm) +
socketSocket 7 +, Super Socket 7 + and BGA-360 +
technologyCMOS +
word size32 bit (4 octets, 8 nibbles) +