Does the AMD Athlon X4 860K have hyper threading?

Solution
The new line of AMD chips are purported to have a version of multi-treading capability.
http://betanews.com/2016/02/13/amd-zen-processors-will-have-32-cores-and-symmetrical-multi-threading/


yep.
hyperthreading is the same core processing another thread of code during the time it would normally be left waiting. So there's one core and a few buffers for the other thread of data.

AMD's cores are almost full cores but as said they share resources. unfortunately the sharing often causes a big performance hit compared to four, fully separate cores

(AMD bet programs would be better threaded so the performance loss would justify the cost savings in silicon. that didn't happen)
 

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The new line of AMD chips are purported to have a version of multi-treading capability.
http://betanews.com/2016/02/13/amd-zen-processors-will-have-32-cores-and-symmetrical-multi-threading/
 
Solution
the above article is pretty misleading at times.

It says Zen "will feature no fewer than 32 cores" then says Zen "will feature up to 32 cores."

Not that I'll be buying any 32-cores CPU's. The author is confusing the Zen brand with a particular Zen processor which makes reading this confusing.

Not only that he talks about the two, 16-core CPU's right after mentioning SMT so confuses that as well. Probably the worst article I've ever read.

*This business of putting two, 16-core CPU's to make a 32-core CPU is probably fine for the intended server market. It's got NOTHING to do with the desktop so we'll get proper 8-core CPU's that are likely 8C/16T (hyperthreaded CPU's or what AMD calls "SMT")