Hyper-Threading Technology is a groundbreaking innovation from Intel® Corporation that enables multi-threaded software applications to execute threads in parallel within each processor. Click on read more for further details and see which current chipset is able to support this feature. Is yours? Hyper-Threading Technology provides thread-level-parallelism (TLP) on each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, an average improvement of ~40% in CPU resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor. This is achieved by duplicating the architectural state on each processor, while sharing one set of processor execution resources. Hyper-Threading Technology also delivers faster response times for multi-tasking workload environments. By allowing the processor to use on-die resources that would otherwise have been idle, Hyper-Threading Technology provides a performance boost on multi-threading and multi-tasking operations for the Intel® NetBurst? microarchitecture. The catch is that you need to run a XEON processor to benefit from Hyper-Threading. Chipset Hyper-Threading Support 850E Yes (BIOS Update) 845E Yes (BIOS Update) 845G (A-step) No 845GL No 845G (B-step) Yes 845GV Yes 845GE Yes 845PE Yes Springdale-G/P Yes Source: Intel