BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.

The technology behind Hyper-Threaded, or HT, and multi-core processors enables processors to far exceed the performance of single-core, non-HT processors. The differences between the technologies are ...

Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

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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Want to scare the life out of a programmer friend? Just utter the words "multi-threading" into their ear - it works every time! Alright - that's a bit of an exaggeration, but writing multi-threaded ...

The key to the Virtual Processor Element (VPE) approachused in the MIPS 34K core is a set of extensions of the processor'sbasic instruction set architecture, rather than a specific set ofhardware ...

Deadlocks, livelocks, and race conditions, oh my! The biggest challenge facing game companies right now is the problem of writing multithreaded code that fully supports the multiple-core architectures ...

Q: Looking at common CPUs for PC building and the specs for the upcoming next-generation consoles, I’ve found myself wondering: Will we need 8-core, 16-thread CPUs for gaming soon? No, not in the near ...

In this article, we’re going to discuss these questions. First of all, let us make it clear that Windows 11/10 is already configured for multi-core support. The setting for the second processor is ...