Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Tenchu, the very initial point was that the new Intel HyperThreading technology is just the introduction of the benefits of multithreading for the consumer apps, games included. It's hard to tell which games are already optimized, but it's going to be more and more. For optimized apps, dual-cpu design will give from 50% to 90% performance boost, instead of 5%-20% of HyperThreading.

So, SMP is becoming the technology for the consumer, except that Intel's solution HT is in fact "SMP for the poor", while the technical possibility of AMD to make the real SMP for all can make the dual-A64 platform completely out of Intel reach.