The end of technology at Intel? Lunar Lake CPUs without Hyperthreading

Hyperthreading before the final finish?

That reports it Newin online magazine Thus begins the discussion: Is the end of Hyperthreading coming now, or is Hyperthreading obsolete? There was already a hint of this at the beginning of February, but now the rumors have intensified.

While Intel's e-cores (efficient cores) already lack Hyperthreading technology, the company appears to be ditching it in its traditional performance cores (P-Cores) as well.

Simultaneous Multithreading Technology (SMT), or multithreading technology as Intel calls it, has been a technology used in the company's processors for more than 20 years. Intel continues to use this technology to this day, with some improvements and exceptions. Hyperthreading technology (HTT) allows a physical core to execute more than one instruction in a thread. Parallel processing improves the multithreading performance of a hyperthreaded chip because a single physical core on the chip can act as two hyperthreaded logical cores through its logical cores.

Are differences in performance compensated for?

However, this does not mean that one hyperthreading physical core is as powerful as two physical cores. It just results in better performance compared to the physical core.

Despite Intel's success with HTT, the company appears to be looking to move away from this process for next-generation desktop and laptop components.

An insight into the Lunar Lake

The latest leak shows a task manager screenshot that looks like Lunar Lake (16th Gen Intel mobile processor) in its early A1 stage. The most interesting thing about this is the number of cores (physical) and logical cores, which Windows displays as eight. This means that there doesn't appear to be any HTT active there.

Additionally, Lunar Lake isn't the first time Intel has ditched Hyperthreading technology. In early February, a document was leaked from Intel showing the missing HTT for Arrow Lake-S CPUs.

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