I've been getting a fair number of questions about multi-threading the past couple of weeks. The reason is that Intel has been previewing its "Nehalem EX" Xeon processor in advance of Advanced Micro ...

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Deterministic eight-way hardware multi-threading and a memory-to-memory instruction set make the 32-bit IP3023 a fast and efficient embedded network processor. Software I/O and a large on-chip RAM ...

Intel executives told the Microprocessor Forum last week that its simultaneous multi-threading techniques will run out of steam around 2006. But in the meantime, the company will continue to exploit ...