No, NEON is an ARM-specific tech, and is widely available and used e.g. on Android smartphones.
It's like MMX / SSE of x86 world, a set of extra instructions to process many small integers in parallel in one instruction. Since image data are usually independent 3-byte pixels (or 3 planes of 1-byte subpixels, one per color channel), NEON is great for many image-processing tasks.
It's like MMX / SSE of x86 world, a set of extra instructions to process many small integers in parallel in one instruction. Since image data are usually independent 3-byte pixels (or 3 planes of 1-byte subpixels, one per color channel), NEON is great for many image-processing tasks.
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_SIMD...