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I recently discovered that there is a complete mess with Multi-Threaded abbreviations:
CMT vs. SMT vs. SMT vs. HTT
CMT - Clustered Multithreading ( AMD )
SMT - Symmetric Multithreading ( Classic / Generic )
SMT - Simultaneous Multithreading ( AMD / actually does almost the same as Intel's HTT as far as I understood from AMD's docs )
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology ( Intel )
My concern is that AMD reused a classic term SMT for its own Simultaneous Multithreading model ( also SMT ) for new generation of Processing Units ( Zen )!
Why didn't AMD called it somehow else? For example, Unbalanced Multithreading ( UMT )...
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I think that CMT abbreivation was coined by the AMD in order to describe their technology which Bulldozer CPU is based upon.
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>>CMT abbreivation was coined by the AMD in order to describe their technology
>>which Bulldozer CPU is based upon...
Yes, that is correct. An interesting news here is that in case of Zen architecture AMD finally "shifted" all efforts to SMT model.
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This year will be very interesting mainly because of Zen disclosure. I bet that Intel will have a hard time with that "beast".
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>> I bet that Intel will have a hard time with that "beast"..
We know already that Intel has some problems with Skylake line of CPUs.
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