Daniel Micay on Twitter: "@BRIAN_____ Intel has been dropping it from lots of their CPUs. They even started releasing high-end i7 branded CPUs without it present: https://t.co/TNQrfOT08C. Some still have it and I don't think dropping it is due to security reasons. It won't exist on the vast majority of consumer CPUs." / Twitter

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Nov 2, 2018

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I don't think SMT would be widespread if it wasn't such a great marketing tool. They use it to claim there are 2x the number of cores by talking about "logical cores" which is pretty much nonsense. The performance benefits are overrated and it can often impose a cost instead.

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Intel has been dropping it from lots of their CPUs. They even started releasing high-end i7 branded CPUs without it present: ark.intel.com/products/18660. Some still have it and I don't think dropping it is due to security reasons. It won't exist on the vast majority of consumer CPUs.

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