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Behind The Scenes With Intel's Hyper-Threading
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Anandtech has an article up explainging what Hyper-Threading is, and how it will affect today's systems. Is the power there? Here's a snip:
Hyper-Threading is the marketing name applied to a technology that has been around outside of the x86 realm for a little while now - Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT). The idea behind SMT is simple; the single physical CPU appears to the OS as two logical processors but the OS does not see any difference between one SMT CPU and two regular CPUs. In both cases the OS dispatches two threads to the "two" CPUs and the hardware takes it from there.
Read on here.
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