TL;DR: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced the reintroduction of simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) or Hyper-Threading in future CPUs to enhance performance and competitiveness, especially in data center ...

Intel’s most recent financial update revealed a revenue drop in Q2 and conservative forecasts for the near term. In a memo from CEO Lip Bu Tan addressed to employees and later released externally, the ...

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 ...

Has Intel's Hyper-Threading support become a fundamental security problem? Theo de Raadt, founder of OpenBSD, argues that it has. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

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 ...

Yesterday, Intel published a blog post titled "Lip-Bu Tan: Steps in the Right Direction," described as "a message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees." In it, he addresses the turmoil ...