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    Hyper-threading is a technique by Intel that allows a single CPU chip to act like multiple processors by taking advantage of unused circuitry. It enables software to execute threads in parallel for faster performance on multi-tasking workloads. Hyper Transport is a high-speed connection between computer components that can increase communication speeds by up to 48 times over some existing technologies. It aims to reduce bottlenecks and allow microprocessors to access memory more efficiently in multiprocessor systems.

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    Hyper-threading is a technique by Intel that allows a single CPU chip to act like multiple processors by taking advantage of unused circuitry. It enables software to execute threads in parallel for faster performance on multi-tasking workloads. Hyper Transport is a high-speed connection between computer components that can increase communication speeds by up to 48 times over some existing technologies. It aims to reduce bottlenecks and allow microprocessors to access memory more efficiently in multiprocessor systems.

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    Hyper-threading is a technique by Intel that allows a single CPU chip to act like multiple processors by taking advantage of unused circuitry. It enables software to execute threads in parallel for faster performance on multi-tasking workloads. Hyper Transport is a high-speed connection between computer components that can increase communication speeds by up to 48 times over some existing technologies. It aims to reduce bottlenecks and allow microprocessors to access memory more efficiently in multiprocessor systems.

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    Hyper-threading is a technique by Intel that allows a single CPU chip to act like multiple processors by taking advantage of unused circuitry. It enables software to execute threads in parallel for faster performance on multi-tasking workloads. Hyper Transport is a high-speed connection between computer components that can increase communication speeds by up to 48 times over some existing technologies. It aims to reduce bottlenecks and allow microprocessors to access memory more efficiently in multiprocessor systems.

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    The key takeaways are that hyper-threading allows a single CPU chip to act like multiple processors by taking advantage of unused circuitry, while hyper transport provides high-speed communication between integrated circuits. Hyper-threading enables parallel execution of threads, and hyper transport increases communication speed between components.

    Hyper-threading is a technique that allows a single CPU chip to act like multiple logical processors by taking advantage of unused circuitry on the chip. It enables more efficient use of processor resources and nearly doubles the processing power for multi-threaded applications.

    Hyper-threading refers to a CPU's ability to handle multiple threads of execution at once, while hyper transport is a high-speed communication technology between integrated circuits. Hyper-threading improves multi-tasking performance within a CPU, and hyper transport increases communication speed between different components.

    Hyper - Threading and Hyper Transport

    Hyper- Threading

    By looking at the picture below, Could someone please tell me how


    many processors I recently purchased? In the past, this was a really
    simple question to answer, why two of course! Since Intel rolled out
    hyper-threading, a simple glimpse at Task Manager just isn't enough to
    tell you what someone has under the hood of their precious boxes.

    What exactly is this “Hyper threading”? When Intel released it’s


    Pentium 4 Processor big time for the simple customers in the mid
    2002s it made a big impact in the industry. Basically it was caused due
    to the confusion created by the unfamiliarity of the concept. AMD,
    Intel’s biggest competition in the industry was working way ahead of
    it’s counterparts in specified user environments. But Intel managed to
    recapture it’s hold on the market quite rapidly thanks to the new boy
    “Hyper thread”. What do you mean by Hyper threading? Buddy, it’s
    quite a simple concept….

    A technique used to make a single chip act like more. That’s it. Hyper
    threading is a concept introduced by Intel, that lets a chip operate far
    more efficiently and almost as well as a dual processor machine by
    taking advantage of formerly unused circuitry on a Pentium 4 chip.
    With it a computer can run a single application faster than a single
    processor system can.

    Hyper threading works by using the additional CPU registers (circuits


    that help manage data inside a chip) that exist on the Pentium 4
    processor architecture but aren't used at all times. With the use of
    these registers, the chip is better able to manage it's existing
    resources without the need to seek computing power elsewhere.

    Quite a bit of what a CPU does is illusion. For instance, modern out-of-
    order processor architectures don't actually execute code sequentially
    in the order in which it was written. An Out-of-Order-Execution (OOE)
    architecture takes code that was written and compiled to be executed
    in a specific order, reschedules the sequence of instructions (if
    possible) so that they make maximum use of the processor resources,
    executes them, and then arranges them back in their original order so
    that the results can be written out to memory. To the programmer and
    the user, it looks as if an ordered, sequential stream of instructions
    went into the CPU and identically ordered, sequential stream of
    computational results emerged. Only the CPU knows in what order the
    program's instructions were actually executed, and in that respect the
    processor is like a black box to both the programmer and the user.

    Hyper-Threading Technology enables multi-threaded software


    applications to execute threads in parallel. This level of threading
    technology has never been seen before in a general-purpose
    microprocessor.

    Hyper-Threading Technology also delivers faster response times for


    multi-tasking workload environments. By allowing the processor to use
    on-die resources that would otherwise have been idle, Hyper-Threading
    Technology provides a performance boost on multi-threading and
    multi-tasking operations. This technology is largely invisible to the
    platform.

    More on this novel Concept can be obtained first hand from the official
    Site of Intel.

    Hyper Transport

    Hyper Transport technology is a high-speed, point-to-point link


    designed to increase the communication speed between integrated
    circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, and networking and
    telecommunications equipment up to 48 times faster than some
    existing technologies.

    Hyper Transport technology is an optimized board-level architecture


    delivering lowest possible latency, highest bandwidth, design
    flexibility, performance scalability and PCI compatibility. Hyper
    Transport delivers all of these capabilities within a framework that
    enables board-level designers to develop system architectures free of
    cumbersome constraints and performance burdens.

    The widespread adoption of Hyper Transport across a broad spectrum


    of high performance product sectors ranging from consumer devices to
    personal computers, network equipment and supercomputers, is
    tangible proof of the power and flexibility of the Hyper Transport
    architecture.

    Hyper Transport technology helps reduce the number of buses in a


    system, which can reduce system bottlenecks and enable today's
    faster microprocessors to use system memory more efficiently in high-
    end multiprocessor systems.
    Hyper Transport technology is designed to:

    • Provide significantly more bandwidth than current technologies


    • Use low-latency responses and low pin counts
    • Maintain compatibility with legacy PC buses while being
    extensible to new SNA (Systems Network Architecture) buses.
    • Appear transparent to operating systems and offer little impact
    on peripheral drivers.

    Hyper Transport technology was invented at AMD with contributions


    from industry partners and is managed and licensed by the Hyper
    Transport Technology Consortium, a Texas non-profit corporation. The
    full specification and more information about Hyper Transport
    technology can be found at HyperTransport.org.

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