What’s better than two processors? Normally the answer might be four processors but, according to a leak from AMD France, the processor maker is instead working on a multi-core CPU that acts like one CPU.
Going in the opposite direction to current trends in the microprocessor industry, AMD’s new technology is slated to arrive after AMD’s next-generation K8 architecture and will be known as anti-HT, or antihyperthreading, according to a report on the French site X86-Secret, apparently based on information gathered from an inebriated AMD engineer. HT was Intel’s way of using otherwise idle clock cycles for out-of-order execution, which made it appear as if a system possessed two CPUs.