ALSO CALLED: Threading, Hyper-threading, Superthreading, and Multi-threading DEFINITION: Hyper-Threading is a technology used by some Intel microprocessors that allows a single microprocessor to act like two separate processors to the operating system and the application programs that use it. It is a feature of Intel's IA-32 processor
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With Hyper-Threading, a microprocessor's "core" processor can execute two (rather than one) concurrent streams (or threads) of instructions sent by the operating system. Having two streams of execution units to work on allows more work to be done by the processor during each clock cycle. To the operating system, the Hyper-Threading microprocessor appears to be two separate processors. Because most of today's operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) … Multithreading definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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