[geeks] New small Intel Board

[Alois Hammer]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:51:50 -0400 (EDT), nate at portents.com said:
> 
> > Hyper-threading
> 
> Atom does have hyperthreading (just as Nehalem will).

I'm a bit puzzled.  HyperThreading was invented because the Pentium 4
architecture -- Willamette through Cedar Mill -- had some unused
execution unit time resulting from the poor design, and presenting an
extra logical CPU got a little of the lost performance back.  Why is HT
suddenly making a return?

...Intel hasn't suddenly added *real* threading a la SPARC T1/T2, have
they?