fpu: Onboard (x87) Floating Point Unit
vme: Virtual Mode Extension
de: Debugging Extensions
pse: Page Size Extensions
tsc: Time Stamp Counter: supportforRDTSC and WRTSC instructions
msr: Model-Specific Registers
pae: Physical Address Extensions: ability to access 64GB of memory; only 4GB can be accessed at atimethough
mce: Machine Check Architecture
cx8: CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic: Onboard Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
sep: Sysenter/Sy***it Instructions; SYSENTER is used for jumps to kernel memory during system calls, and SY***IT is used forjumps: back to the user code
mtrr: Memory Type Range Registers
pge: Page Global Enable
mca: Machine Check Architecture
cmov: CMOV instruction
pat: Page Attribute Table
pse36:36-bit Page Size Extensions: allows to map 4MB pages into the first 64GB RAM, used with PSE.
pn: Processor Serial-Number; only available on Pentium 3clflush: CLFLUSH instruction
dtes: Debug Trace Store
acpi: ACPI via MSR
mmx: MultiMedia Extension
fxsr: FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions
sse: Streaming SIMD Extensions. Single instruction multiple data. Lets youdo a bunch of the same operation on different pieces of input: ina single clock tick.
sse2: Streaming SIMD Extensions-2. More of the same.
selfsnoop: CPU self snoop
acc: Automatic Clock Control
IA64: IA-64processor Itanium.
ht: HyperThreading. Introduces an imaginary second processor that doesn't do much but lets you run threads in the same process a bit quicker.
nx: No Execute bit. Prevents arbitrary code running via buffer overflows.
pni: Prescott New Instructions aka. SSE3
vmx: Intel Vanderpool hardware virtualization technology
svm: AMD"Pacifica"hardware virtualization technology
lm:"Long Mode," whichmeans the chip supports the AMD64 instruction set
tm:"Thermal Monitor" Thermal throttling with IDLE instructions. Usually hardware controlled inresponse to CPU temperature.
tm2:"Thermal Monitor 2″ Decrease speed by reducing multipler and vcore.
est: "Enhanced SpeedStep"