Intel touts Hyperthreading in P4
eWeek | at | by Mike
Intel flagship processor line, the Pentium 4, will receive a double dose of improvements this fall when the chip maker releases a new version revved up to 3GHz with an additional performance-enhancing technology called hyperthreading.
Hyperthreading, which first appeared in Intel Xeon chips for workstations and servers this year, enables software to take greater advantage of untapped computing power within a processor. The technology allows Intel's chips to process more streams of data, called threads, than they otherwise would, by having applications view a single processor as two virtual CPUs.