Definition: Hyper-Threading

By Jack Krupansky

Hyper-threading is a hardware approach developed by Intel that allows a single central processing unit (CPU) to simultaneously execute portions of two processes or threads in parallel.

See the Webopedia entry for Hyper-Threading.

See the Wikipedia article for Hyper-Threading.

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