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Is Intel also in on Reverse Hyper-Threading?

Posted by: Newsfactory on: 06/27/2006 03:55 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1092 views

AMD wont be happy to hear of this news i'm sure. Although mentioned the other day that AMD's AM2 platform may yet be quite the competitor to Intel's Conroe with its reverse Hyper-Threading feature, more recent news has since surfaced over at the XtremeSystems forums.

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#64888 Posted on: 06/28/2006 05:43 AM

Oh lord, people just buy into fake rumours and stuff...

This is what Intel spokesman said when asked about it:

“We will support the disabling of one core in BIOS in a future BIOS rev.,” said Daniel Snyder, a spokesman for Intel Corp., when asked about the background of the technology. This means that once one core is disabled, the whole 2MB or 4MB cache reservoir on microprocessors that have shared level-two (L2) cache will be usable by one processing engine, which should boost performance in applications that cannot take advantage of two executing cores.

It is highly-likely that the feature will only work on the upcoming Core 2 processors code-named Conroe, which have shared L2 cache between its cores. It is also likely that the capability will allow quad-core chips to act like two dual-core processors in situations when four processing engines cannot be used efficiently.

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Is Intel also in on Reverse Hyper-Threading?

Posted by: Newsfactory on: 06/27/2006 03:55 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1092 views

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