I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

A new side-channel vulnerability has been discovered called PortSmash that uses a timing attack that to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading ...

Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

The exploit Dan is so breathlessly ranting about isn't particularly a vulnerability in SMT. We know SMT allows you to do timing attacks, but so does a lot of other things. SMT simply makes it easier ...

In a recent blog post, AMD’s Robert Hallock recently posted an update on some of the big issues currently surrounding the new Ryzen processor including thread scheduling, temperature reporting, power ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intel has confirmed it is adding simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) to its mainstream processors, a technology which allows a single CPU to turn into two or more virtual processors. SMT will be added ...

Over the weekend, developer CD Projekt Red rolled out a patch (v1.05) for Cyberpunk 2077 containing a whole bunch of fixes, improvements, and tweaks. One of the fixes is supposed to address the ...

San Diego -- Dean Tullsen is predicting a revolution in desktop microprocessing, thanks to new technology he helped develop. Intel recently announced that this quarter, it will begin shipping the ...