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 ...

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 ...

Ever since it became clear that AMD's Carrizo would be a mobile update with a focus on energy efficiency as opposed to raw performance, enthusiasts and investors have been hungry for details about the ...

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 ...

Forward-looking: New research details a process that allows a CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator to work seamlessly in parallel on separate tasks. The pioneering breakthrough could provide blazing-fast, ...

You're at Guru3D, so we'll first look into all the current desktop parts and then have a chat about the Threadripper processors. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X is a CPU that brings an impressive 64 ...

The next generation of AMD processors could enjoy even more capable multithreaded performance with an improvement to simultaneous multithreading, called SM4. It would effectively give Zen 3-powered ...

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 AMD Zen CPU architecture is now called AMD Ryzen (pronounced rye-zen, not rizen). Perhaps more importantly, though, as we creep towards Ryzen’s promised Q1 2017 release date, AMD has finally ...

Currently MIPS offers two multi-threaded solutions: the single-core MIPS32 34K and the multi-core MIPS32 1004K coherent processing system (CPS). It's new 64-bit MIPS64 Prodigy platform pushes past ...

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 ...