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Hyper-Threading Last modified: Thursday, October 24, 2002

A technology developed by Intel that enables multithreaded software applications to execute threads in parallel on a single multi-core processor instead of processing threads in a linear fashion. Older systems took advantage of dual-processing threading in software by splitting instructions into multiple streams so that more than one processor could act upon them at once.

Hyper-Threading Technology Intel’s explanation of Hyper-Threading, though heavy on hyperbole. Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading and Hyperthreading A comprehensive explanation of these three threading techniques.