"The world's largest chip maker Intel is introducing technology that tricks a computer into thinking it has two chips instead of one."
This is only true on win2k, winXP supports hyperthreading properly.
HP/Sun are developing processors which ACTUALLY have more than one core on the die. Given how small the cpus are getting; the potential is there for huge improvements in performance/cost by having more than one core on the die.
Didn't Intel also claim that 512k of 1/2 speed cache was better than 128k of full speed cache ? This was supposed to justify why Pentiums were three times the price of Celerons. Once we all knew how to overclock the little 300A it was wiping the floor with Pentiums much "faster" than it.
Then Intel had a sudden loss of memory (pun intended), and decided that the next version of the Pentium should have less cache running at full speed too, because that was found to be more efficient, this was used to justify why the "Coppermine" was better, and more expensive.
I seriously doubt any of Intels claims nowdays, I'd admit they are innovative but the way they are presented leaves so many facts by the wayside in pursuit of a marketing "edge".
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