Intel executives told the Microprocessor Forum last week that its simultaneous multi-threading techniques will run out of steam around 2006. But in the meantime, the company will continue to exploit ...

The maintainer of open source Unix-like operating system, OpenBSD, has announced that it will disable hyperthreading on Intel CPUs because of security concerns. It claims that simultaneous ...

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 ...

Intel has confirmed it is adding simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) to its mainstream processors, a technology which allows a single CPU to turn into two or more virtual processors. SMT will be added ...

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 ...