hyperthreading

Noun

Meaning

hyperthreading (uncountable)

(computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

multiprogramming

Examples

The Prestonia core was basically the Pentium 4 Northwood with SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) and HyperThreading added as standard features. Source: Internet

Priced just under $93, this chip is clocked at 3.90 GHz, has 4 MB of L3 cache, and features HyperThreading enabling four logical CPUs. Source: Internet

The Athlon 64 does not support HyperThreading and lacks those SSE3 instructions used only for HyperThreading. Source: Internet

Introduced in 2004 along with the Prescott revision of the Pentium 4 processor, SSE3 added specific memory and thread -handling instructions to boost the performance of Intel's HyperThreading technology. Source: Internet

Hyperthreading is supported on Itanium systems with Montecito and Tukwila processors. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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