ZDNet

Hyper-threading without the hype

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Houston Chronicle

The Advantages of Hyper-Threading

Most of Intel's microprocessor chips have a feature the company calls "hyper-threading." The technology improves performance in complex software environments by more efficiently juggling multiple ...
TechSpot

How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

As we've come to learn recently, there are four new hardware vulnerabilities that affect Intel processors. These new flaws allow attackers to leak confidential data by exploiting microarchitectural ...
ZDNet

Hyper-threading: Intel's call to action

I used to follow the processor business very closely and go to Microprocessor Forum, the premiere show in the industry, every year. One of the arguments made by the hardware geniuses, although never ...
ExtremeTech

Is Hyper-Threading a Fundamental Security Risk?

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 ...
PC World

Intel: You don’t need to disable Hyper-Threading to protect against the ZombieLoad CPU exploit

ZombieLoad is similar to previous “side channel” attacks, which trick Intel processors into coughing up potentially sensitive information that otherwise would be kept private by the CPU. The exploit ...
Bleeping Computer

New PortSmash Hyper-Threading CPU Vuln Can Steal Decryption Keys

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 ...
CRN

Security Threat Seen In Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology

"Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw," said Colin Percival, a 23-year-old ...
PCGamesN

Intel ditches DDR4 and Hyper-Threading in new next-gen CPU leak

A bunch of Intel 15 th-gen specs have just leaked online, not only confirming that Intel is dropping DDR4 support from its forthcoming CPUs, but possibly also ditching Hyper-Threading. Details of a ...
Digital Trends

Leak shows Intel’s 9th-gen Core i7 desktop CPU won’t have hyper-threading

A supposed leak listed on an unsecure Chinese forum (now removed) suggests that Intel will not provide hyper-threading technology on its ninth-generation Core i7-9700K processor. This news is notable ...
ExtremeTech

Is Hyper-Threading a Fundamental Security Risk?

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 ...