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 ...

The OpenBSD project is killing off support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more “Spectre-class bugs”. For those who came in late ...

Intel has shipped Hyper-Threading CPUs for well over a decade, even subtracting the Core 2 era when the technology wasn't used. For most of that time, Hyper-Threading has been a technology that 'just ...

Intel's powerful six-core, multi-threading i7-980X processor is finally being put to the test with the release of new gaming and graphics software capable of tapping many of the processor's 12 threads ...

The slides show Intel is planning three variants of Arrow Lake for desktop: 8P+16E, 6P+16E, and 6P+8E. Without Hyper-Threading, this gives us the option of 24, 22, or 14 cores and the same number of ...

Intel first introduced Hyper-Threading (HT) technology with is Xeon CPU architecture back in 2002, over 20 years ago now, with simultaneous multithreading technology allowing physical cores inside of ...

What just happened? Intel will launch its Arrow Lake processor lineup for desktops and laptops later this year. A new leak has now revealed several interesting details about the chips, including a ...

The title says it all, but don’t throw out your gaming rig quite yet. This security hole affects mostly machines doing multi-user operations (think ‘webservers’ doing secure transactions) and is, ...

We have some fresh news from Chinese leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, who has posted on the Bilibili forums giving us an update on Arrow Lake CPUs. Golden Pig Upgrade says that there have been so many ...

Hyper-Threading increases performance by about 12 percent, according to measurements conducted by the CRN Test Center. In its testing, Intel claims performance boosts of about 26 percent at the high ...