San Jose, Calif. – Microprocessor makers debated the merits of multithreading and hardware security at the Microprocessor Forum here last week. Server-CPU makers Fujitsu Ltd., IBM Microelectronics and ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Computer microprocessor makers debated the merits of multithreading and hardware security at the Microprocessor Forum here Tuesday (Oct 14). Server CPU makers Fujitsu, IBM and Sun ...
A new side-channel vulnerability has been discovered called PortSmash that uses a timing attack that to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading ...
The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs." Hyper-threading (HT) ...
A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...