Hyperthreading is a name for a CPU patch.
Willamette was doing so bad from the beginning, Intel had to do something to it. They patched the chip and their marketing made it look like Hyperthreading was a major invention.
Wow, as always, your information is incredibly wrong. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hyperthreading was in Xeons long before it was in P4s. (The name is even quite reasonable as server marchitecture.) It was actually in Willy's core from the beginning, but was deactivated because Intel didn't think that it belonged in desktops. They had only intended it for servers, where multiple threads are as common as asian lady beetles.
But because they used much of the same process for making both Xeons and P4s the technology was in both, and soon people started unlocking HT in Willy's engineering samples, looking for it because it was already running on Xeons. At that point what could Intel do? Everyone knew that it was there. They had no choice but to release it for the P4 if they didn't want a lot of pissed off desktop customers. So they made it sound like some great thing, made mobo chipsets that could actually use it, and just stopped flipping that part of the proc off. And everyone was happy.
Well, everyone except for you, Era. :tongue:
No patch was ever made to the CPU. In fact, it was the opposite. An extra production step to deactivate HT was no longer being performed. Keeping HT
out of the P4 was the patch. Giving the P4 HT was an anti-patch.
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