IDF: Intel unwraps SMT Xeon

Even by its standards, Intel has prepped an aggressive roll-out of its SMT multi-threaded processors across its server line, beginning right about now, Andrew Orlowski writes .

Xeon is the first mainstream processor to incorporate SMT (simultaneous multi threading), although the technique was nurtured with the Alpha EV68, which as we now know, will never see the light of day. We first confirmed that Intel's Jackson project was slightly more than a skunkworks sideline here , last February in fact.

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