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Technically the Intel SMT implementation was developed by … Digital!

Stephen Kitt
– Stephen Kitt

2023-04-18 12:54:02 +00:00
Commented Apr 18, 2023 at 12:54
@StephenKitt are you referring to multi core or hyper threading?

Philip Couling
– Philip Couling

2023-04-18 16:16:55 +00:00
Commented Apr 18, 2023 at 16:16
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Hyperthreading is an implementation of SMT (simultaneous multi-threading). Digital were working on it for Alpha, and there was an Alpha chip with multi-threading but it got canned after the Compaq acquisition before it could be commercialised. The lead engineer ended up at Intel and applied the Alpha SMT technology to the Pentium 4. (Alpha tech ended up all over the place, follow the engineers...)

Stephen Kitt
– Stephen Kitt

2023-04-18 18:09:11 +00:00
Commented Apr 18, 2023 at 18:09

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