http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30087

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"HT HYPERTHREADING is on its last legs as multicores come in said Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer today. The answer is multicores, said Rattner, describing Intel’s new marchitechture push as "tera scaling". Intel is pushing multicores as a future technology introducing a Tera Scale programme to encourage developers to write to dual and multicores. Intel does this sort of thing, said Rattner. We predicted this would happen quite a while ago. Rattner told an audicence of international hacks that multicores required new applications re-written for multipliers. Indeed, we believe we never understood hyped threading when Intel first launched it. Intel seemed reluctant to tell us which apps would benefit from HT apart from Microsoft (Vole Office)."

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3/7/2006 2:15:13 PM

but what about dual hyperthreading cores??

or two dual-core processors with hyperthreading, thats like, 8 processors right?

[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 3:07 PM. Reason : rolley]

3/7/2006 3:06:28 PM

^ see that's what i always thought they'd do too. why abandon the only cool thing you have over AMD?

3/7/2006 3:15:33 PM

I never saw HT as a huge benefit. It is just another bit of code that has to be implimented and something else to make the processor run hotter and draw more power for speed bumps whenever an occasional program had HT optimized code.

Going multi-core is much better in many ways.

3/7/2006 4:02:29 PM

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"or two dual-core processors with hyperthreading, thats like, 8 processors right?"

heh heh...yeah, it's kind of funny booting up a multi-node server to windows and seeing 128 processors listed

3/7/2006 5:02:39 PM

I have a p4 d/ee or whatever you want to call it - dual core with HT. I like it a lot.

HT isn't as good as dual core, but it's not supposed to be. I have a regular p4 at work with HT and it suits me fine.

3/7/2006 7:27:10 PM