For most of the past decade, Intel has followed a fairly steady set of rules when speccing out its Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. Until last year, Core i3 chips were dual-cores with Hyper-Threading ...

Intel's desktop business is in something of a tight spot. While the company's mainstream 8th and 9th Generation CPUs offered very strong performance against AMD's Ryzen throughout 2017 and 2018, the ...

Does the fact that there are two threads running simultaneously on a single core slow one or both threads down as compared to having that only one thread running on a single core? I'm talking about ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

A bunch of Intel 15 th-gen specs have just leaked online, not only confirming that Intel is dropping DDR4 support from its forthcoming CPUs, but possibly also ditching Hyper-Threading. Details of a ...

The rumors around Intel's Arrow Lake processors are starting to pile up, and the latest one is a bit of a shocker in all honesty - that the chips which will follow next-gen Raptor Lake Refresh will do ...

Intel first introduced Hyper-Threading (HT) technology with is Xeon CPU architecture back in 2002, over 20 years ago now, with simultaneous multithreading technology allowing physical cores inside of ...

There's more evidence that Arrow Lake-S CPUs might not have Hyper-Threading. Following previously leaked slides, an entry on Intel test machines with an undisclosed Arrow Lake CPU with 24 cores and 24 ...

Yesterday, Intel published a blog post titled "Lip-Bu Tan: Steps in the Right Direction," described as "a message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees." In it, he addresses the turmoil ...

Intel has confirmed that Hyper-Threading (SMT) will return to its server processors in 2028 with the launch of the Coral Rapids architecture, marking a major change in direction after removing the ...

A new side-channel attack called TLBleed abuses the Hyper-Threading feature of Intel chips. Researchers say there is a high success rate of TLBleed exploits, but Intel currently has no plans to patch ...