TL;DR: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced the reintroduction of simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) or Hyper-Threading in future CPUs to enhance performance and competitiveness, especially in data center ...
For most of the past decade, Intel has followed a fairly steady set of rules when speccing out its Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. Until last year, Core i3 chips were dual-cores with Hyper-Threading ...