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At one point I think hyperthreading was i7 only too?
by klelatti 6y ago
At one point I think hyperthreading was i7 only too?
- gambiting 6y agoMobile i5s always had hyperthreading from the beginning. Edit: nope, actually, I'm wrong - Core i5-430M was a straight dual core, no hyperthreading part.
- ethbr0 6y agoOriginally, my memory says "i7 meant 4+ core & hyper threading", "i5 meant 4 cores w/o HT", "i3 meant 2 cores (with or without HT)". But I'm sure even at the beginning there were SKUs that broke the coding due to customer demand.
- jandrese 6y agoI think the lesson here is that Intel's marketing for these chips has been a mess from day one. Some of it is inevitable, they have too many aspects to contain in a reasonable product name, but letting the names become divorced from any sort of reality helps nobody.
- usefulcat 6y agoI'm writing this on a dual core i3 with hyper threading.