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Leaked Task Manager image suggests Intel killing Windows XP-era hyperthreading on next gen (www.neowin.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Task Manager of prototype Intel CPU shows Core and Logical processor count are the same at 8.

This is still a relatively low end chip if its just 8 cores and a 13500 has 6 + 8 = 14 total so this is maybe a laptop processor. Hyperthreading probably doesn't make sense anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Hyperthreading is responsible for some of the headaches with Spectre/Meltdown attacks afaik, maybe they want to get rid of the overhead of the mitigations... Or they have just been rethinking things and now hide hyperthreading from the OS. Entirely possible to let a modern SOC handle this on its own with all the excess transistors.

I agree with the other comment that suggested it might only be some select chips without HT tho