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Computer Architecture & Organization
Q52 / 100
What is "hyper-threading" (or simultaneous multithreading, SMT)?
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The correct answer is A) A technology that allows a single physical CPU core to present itself as two (or more) logical cores, improving utilization of execution resources by interleaving instructions from multiple threads
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Correct Answer
A technology that allows a single physical CPU core to present itself as two (or more) logical cores, improving utilization of execution resources by interleaving instructions from multiple threads
Explanation
SMT allows a core to maintain state for multiple threads and switch between them to fill idle execution slots, improving throughput without the cost of fully duplicating a core, though it doesn't provide the same performance as true additional cores.
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