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ComputerGuru on March 25, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT Graphene Multiplier May Push CPUs to 1,000 GHz

Oh, I'm not denying the merits of pipelining - no one can. I'm just saying that nothing is good when taken to the extreme.

The "more interesting option" you're referring to is implemented in P4 and Nehalem under the trademark of "HyperThreading."

scott_s on March 25, 2009 [–]

The non-marketing name is Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), but I've never been impressed with SMT performance. I think the emerging processors that use many simpler cores will have more impact.

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