San Jose, Calif. – Microprocessor makers debated the merits of multithreading and hardware security at the Microprocessor Forum here last week. Server-CPU makers Fujitsu Ltd., IBM Microelectronics and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Computer microprocessor makers debated the merits of multithreading and hardware security at the Microprocessor Forum here Tuesday (Oct 14). Server CPU makers Fujitsu, IBM and Sun ...

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 ...

Ever since it became clear that AMD's Carrizo would be a mobile update with a focus on energy efficiency as opposed to raw performance, enthusiasts and investors have been hungry for details about the ...

The top-end Ryzen 7 1800X boasts eight cores and 16 threads just like Intel’s Kaby Lake Core i7-6900K, but in a 95W package that costs half the price of Intel’s octo-core offering. And when it comes ...

The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs." Hyper-threading (HT) ...

After spending several days with Intel’s newest consumer CPU designs, we have some surprising news: they’re faster than AMD’s latest Ryzens on both single-threaded and most multithreaded benchmarks.

Within single-core CPU architecture, the MIPS multi-threading technology boosts the performance 43% through two VPEs. The performance will be 2X higher when the configuration is dual-core with two ...