With the upcoming launch of Intel’s Prescott core looming on the horizon, the term “hyper-threading” is getting more and more play in the press as Intel prepares to kick its PR campaign into high gear ...

A thread in programming terms is the flow of control within a program, the path taken through the instructions -- a bit like the sequence of thoughts you have when working something out. It's ...

Today Intel announced four new chipsets, all of which have built-in support for hyper-threading. I've poked around in the datasheet for the new 850E, and I haven't yet figured out exactly what new ...

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 ...