While hardware VT and SMP aren't really on the consumer radar for notebook users, the ability to move to a 64-bit version of Windows or Linux, with a supporting platform of course, surely appeals. It's therefore surprising to see Intel seem to hide away that ability in its Intel Core Duo chips, which now power a range of Apple products lest we forget.

You include it because it simplifies process. You don't include it as a spec because then you have to verify it, support it, and cannibalize sales of the higher margin option. Duh.

Why so, Intel? Possibly even more beanworthy, especially if you love your CPU silicon as much as we do, is the whisper that Intel also engineered a version of Pentium-M with HyperThreading, 'back in the day'. While that matters little with the way the Core Duo platform has debuted, since it would seem to offer nothing that two complete cores can't do better, it's an interesting HEXUS.bean nonetheless, eh readers?

Intel has enough independent research teams that this is very likely. The policy seems to be, implement everything, and whatever happens to be rising to the surface at the right time makes it. Multicore, etc, have been done n times internally.

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