The new Intel Alder Lake CPUs include P-core and E-cores (performance and efficiency cores) so Intel created Thread Director to manage all of those cores and threads more efficiently than ever before.

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

Intel first introduced Hyper-Threading (HT) technology with is Xeon CPU architecture back in 2002, over 20 years ago now, with simultaneous multithreading technology allowing physical cores inside of ...

Processor architectures are beginning to hit performance ceilings both in terms of shrinking substrate geometry and increasing clock speeds. Consequently, Engineers are having to look at other ways to ...

Intel’s upcoming line of high-performance processors has been dubbed “Arrow Lake”—that much is official. But rumors covered by our sibling site Extremetech (among others) suggest that these CPUs could ...

June 23, 2003 - Intel Corporation today introduced a new version of the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology** at 3.2 GHz. Pentium 4 processor-based PCs and Intel® ...

Rumor has it: With its "Arrow Lake" processors, Intel could ditch its familiar core-doubling technology. The upside of such a radical move might surprise you. I have been interested in science and ...

Intel Corporation has introduced a new version of the Intel Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology** at 3.2GHz. Pentium 4 processor-based PCs and Intel Xeon-based servers with HT ...