From the CPU’s perspective, a thread (short for “thread of execution”), is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tell the computer what to do. In most of my articles on Ars and in my book, I ...

To get maximum parallelization for an application, not only must the application be developed to take advantage of multiple cores, but should also have the code in place to keep a number of threads ...

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

Hyper-Threading Technology Available Across Pentium 4 Processor Product Line Intel Corporation today introduced a new version of the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology** ...

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 ...

Rumor has it: With its "Arrow Lake" processors, Intel could ditch its familiar core-doubling technology. The upside of such a radical move might surprise you. I have been interested in science and ...

Intel Corporation has introduced a new version of the Intel Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology** at 3.2GHz. Pentium 4 processor-based PCs and Intel Xeon-based servers with HT ...

CacheQ Systems, Inc., a leader in compiler tools for heterogeneous compute systems, today announced support for multi-threading acceleration for CPUs with multiple physical cores through its new ...