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[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean the i7s had SMT. You had to pay extra for SMT, whereas AMD started giving it to you on every SKU except a few low-end ones.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Is it true that all of them had SMT but they just locked it away for lower tiers processors and some managed to activate it despite Intel's effort?