The Groundbreaking Performance of Hyper Threading Technology
Until very recently, clock speed was the sexiest selling point for a processor. If you had an Intel Pentium 4 with 3.0 GHz clock speed you thought you had it made. However, Intel’s revolutionary Hyper Threading Technology has forever changed the way we look at CPU performance and signals a fundamental and dramatic shift in processor design. If you purchase an Intel processor that features Hyper Threading Technology you can be confident that you will enjoy a new level of performance that high clock speed alone cannot accomplish.

Creating the Illusion of Two Processors
Hyper Threading Technology’s multithreading design techniques manage to trick an operating system into viewing a single physical processor as if it were two logical processors. To accomplish this, processors enabled with Hyper-Threading technology can manage incoming data from different software applications and continuously switch from one set of data instructions to the other, every few nanoseconds, without losing track of the data processing status of each set of instructions. This process enables the CPU to work on two sets of tasks simultaneously, sharing key resources in the CPU between two threads. Consequently, applications that are optimized for multiprocessor systems will run well on a Hyper-Threaded CPU. HT Technology has inspired Intel to create new class of high-performance desktop PCs that can work quickly among several computing applications at the same time, or provide extra performance for individual software programs that are multithreaded. This level of threading technology has never been seen in a general-purpose microprocessor.

The Ideal Technology for Today’s Demanding Applications
The development of Hyper Threading Technology could not have come at a better time, as Internet, e-Business, and enterprise software applications continue to put higher demands on processors. To improve performance in the past, threading was enabled in the software by splitting instructions into multiple streams so that multiple processors could act upon them. Current processor technologies work by queuing up individual instructions and handling them one at a time and in a logical order. This is analogous to the person who is trying to watch television while talking on the phone. Today, with Hyper-Threading Technology, processor-level threading can be utilized too offer a more efficient use of processor resources for greater parallelism and improved performance on today's multi-threaded software. This is especially beneficial in today's multitasking environments, enabling a better experience when editing video, for example, while rendering an object in the background at the same time. Additionally, HT Technology can improve performance with multithreaded applications, such as Adobe Premiere and other leading animation and content creation applications.

25-Percent Performance Boost Enables Faster e-Business Transactions
The CPU’s improved level of efficiency due to HT Technology dramatically increases PC performance, boosting it by up to 25 percent. This performance boost allows companies to generate much faster e-Business transactions, improves enterprise server response times and enhances the ability to handle more workloads per server. Hyper Threading Technology also promises to increase the speed and quality of multitasking capabilities for server users who run unique applications simultaneously. Hyper-Threading technology can significantly improve the number of Web transactions and users that Intel-based servers can handle at the same time. This technology is largely invisible to the platform. In fact, many applications are already multi-threaded and will automatically benefit from this technology. However, multi-threaded applications take full advantage of the increased performance that Hyper-Threading Technology has to offer, allowing users will see immediate performance gains when multitasking. Today's multi-processing aware software is also compatible with Hyper-Threading Technology enabled platforms, but further performance gains can be realized by specifically tuning software for Hyper-Threading Technology. This technology complements traditional multi-processing by providing additional headroom for future software optimizations and business growth. Additionally, Hyper Threading Technology improves business productivity by facilitating more user support and allows compatibility with existing IA-32 applications and operating systems.