TL;DR: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced the reintroduction of simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) or Hyper-Threading in future CPUs to enhance performance and competitiveness, especially in data center ...

Intel’s upcoming line of high-performance processors has been dubbed “Arrow Lake”—that much is official. But rumors covered by our sibling site Extremetech (among others) suggest that these CPUs could ...

Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

With the upcoming launch of Intel's Prescott core looming on the horizon, the term "hyper-threading" is getting more and more play in the press as Intel prepares to kick its PR campaign into high gear ...

Has Intel's Hyper-Threading support become a fundamental security problem? Theo de Raadt, founder of OpenBSD, argues that it has. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

LAST FEBRUARY, when Intel was still basking in the glow of its new Hyper-Threading Xeon DP CPU, the company suggested that it would be at least the second quarter of 2002 before we’d see ...

Paul Otellini, vice president at Intel Corp., delivers one of the keynote addresses at IDF last week. The possibility of utilizing more of a processor's vacant resources has been vexing those inside ...

James Laudon is one of the authors, along with Kunle Olukotun and Lance Hammond, of the Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency book from Morgan & Claypool ...

Microsoft is again promoting its HyperClear Hyper-V hypervisor technology as a potential balm for organizations trying to come to grips with Intel's latest speculative execution side-channel attack ...

Barely more than a year ago, desktop processors crossed the 2-GHz threshold. And now here comes Intel with a new 3.06-GHz chip. This isn't just another speed bump: Intel has added new technologies ...