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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: kash johal who wrote (71521)9/9/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (1) of 1574017
 
Actually multithreading is not the same as on-chip SMP. In multithreading the execution units are shared between the threads. This can work pretty well because threads often stall waiting for data, so the execution resources are underused.
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