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Old 3rd November 2018
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Originally Posted by hrsetrdr View Post
So, no hyperthreading.
Agreed, that was one of the indications against the presence of hyper-threading.

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A quote from the article about the PortSmash Attack linked by fvgit in the News thread:

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Originally Posted by Billy Brumley
"This is the main reason we released the exploit -- to show how reproducible it is," Brumley told us, "and help to kill off the SMT trend in chips." ...""I hope our work encourages users to disable SMT in the BIOS or choose to spend their money on architectures not featuring SMT."
It looks like this 2006 Pentium D is well ahead of the times.
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