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I doubt it as SMT only has about a 10-15% power hit so would already have been enabled and bragged about by Cook on intro although no doubt will be likely in future generations as with a fat core SMT is low hanging performance fruit.

As Core-M is now more power-efficient than Goldmont I can't see the harm in now using a low clocked version of it as Intel's new mobility chip. At least it would be performance competitive at say 1.5-2 GHz without harming asps in its more traditional markets. That's the only fear about using Core as a mobile chip, the big difference between mobility and PC asps but I suspect they could find a clock speed to beat say A72 but still leave an appreciable performance gap to Core-M. The mobility market is too big to ignore for too long and perhaps Core needs to take up the task now Atom has temporarily failed.