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Hyper-threading

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000553

Intel's proprietary implementation of simultaneous multithreading that presents a single physical processor core as two logical processors to the operating system. Each logical processor handles a separate computational thread, sharing the physical core's execution resources to process tasks in parallel. The performance gain is workload-dependent and does not double the core's power, with typical improvements ranging from negligible to around 30 percent.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000553
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectTechnical
Record as JSON 
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  "definition": "Intel's proprietary implementation of simultaneous multithreading that presents a single physical processor core as two logical processors to the operating system. Each logical processor handles a separate computational thread, sharing the physical core's execution resources to process tasks in parallel. The performance gain is workload-dependent and does not double the core's power, with typical improvements ranging from negligible to around 30 percent.",
  "subject": "Technical",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/hyper-threading/"
}

Record 608 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.