Ars Technica on Hyperthreading

radiokills writes "Ars Technica has a highly-informative technical paper up on Hyper-Threading. It's a technical overview of how simultaneous multithreading works, and what problems it will introduce. It also explains why comparing the technology to SMP is Apples to Oranges, in a sense. Starting with the 3 GHz Pentium 4, this tech will be standard in Intel's desktop lines (it's already in the Xeon), so this is important stuff."

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[chainrust]

I refuse to support Intel as long as they support Palladium and DRM.

SMP is the way grasshopper

[El_Nofx]

This is awesome, because SMP is the future baby.

After running single cpu systems for 10 years I finally antied up and built a dual 1 gig P III box, I would never go back.

There are many many reasons for this, first off my computer hasn't locked up in probobly 4 months, I always have a free processor to kill the app! Even though faily few programs are multi-threaded, SETI@HOME, Photoshop, etc, I still use them both evenly by running 3 or 4 things at once...

I still love to be able to burn a cd, listen to music and play counter-stike all at the same time.

I heard of a Higher-UP at Transmetta saying that SMP was crap one time, what a moron, no wonder they aren't doing that well.

Now maybe when we start seeing Asyncronous processor systems come down to the desktop level is when things will really start to cook..