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To: Joe NYC who wrote (145330)10/15/2001 5:26:44 PM
From: kapkan4u  Respond to of 186894
 
<But Intel seems to be hedging their bets by limiting it to server chips. I wonder why, if the silicon is there, in all the chips.>

Cause they are scared to death of massive recalls if they activate SMT in volume parts. They don't want to validate two different parts. Its much simpler to disable SMT.

Kap



To: Joe NYC who wrote (145330)10/15/2001 5:30:56 PM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 186894
 
But Intel seems to be hedging their bets by limiting it to server chips. I wonder why, if the silicon is there, in all the chips.

Probably OS support. They have said it will move to the desktop later on.

EP


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