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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors. uncountable

   "The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book."

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"The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book."

Etymology

From hyper- + threading, coined as a trademark (Hyper-Threading Technology) by Intel.

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