hyperthreading

A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.

Noun

  1. A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
    • The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book. - 2005, James Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture, page 457:
    • There are some cases where hyperthreading actually degrades CPU performance, especially when CPU utilization is high. - 2010, Mike Laverick, VMware VSphere 4 Implementation, page 307:

Origin

From hyper- + threading, coined as a trademark (Hyper-Threading Technology) by Intel.