Neowin News Feed for: Hyper-threading

Hyper-Threading Considered Harmful

Tom Warren — Mon, 16 May 2005 11:26:00 +0000

According to a report here, Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw. This flaw permits local information disclosure, including... Read more...

Intel Hyper-Threading Test Utility 1.0

Steven Parker — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:53:07 +0000

Thanks xStainDx for his post in Back Page news in our forums. He noticed a handy tool to test if your Intel Hyper-Threading configuration is working correctly. Mine is, check yours! The Hyper-Threading... Read more...

Intel Debuts Hyper-Threading Technology for Notebooks

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:58:22 +0000

Intel Corporation today introduced the Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology* for portable notebook PCs, commonly referred to as desktop replacement notebooks. These systems offer consumers such desktop-like features as large screens,... Read more...

XP Patch: Crash In Ks.sys On PC's With Hyper-Threading CPU

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:07:27 +0000

Today we have a new patch for all Intel users that also run digital video cards, like the Hauppauge brand. It updates Stream.sys to build 5.3.2600.1164. It's last update was included in DirectX 9. ... Read more...

Microsoft Confirms Bug in Hyper-Threading for Windows XP SP1

Tom Warren — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:32:21 +0000

Warp2Search picked up on the fact Microsoft have issued a KB article describing a bug in Intel's Hyper-Threading technology for Windows XP SP1. According to the article, a program that uses large mapped file views... Read more...