Wes [HtP] Felter linked to The Register: Intel's Jackson will offer 2 chips for 1 before I'd caught up on my Register e-mail backlog:

Intel will be introducing SMT into their Foster chips in the summer, sources close to the project have confirmed to The Register. And with Project Jackson, its codename at Satan Clara, Intel will break with its traditional approach to microprocessor design by introducing SMT, or 'simultaneously multithreading', which presents two "virtual" processors to software application.

How any of my students can claim Computer Architecture and Design is boring is beyond me ;-)

A version of this posting will appear on the http://www.arspentia.org Conversant site once I have done some house-keeping over there - and once its DNS records have propogated fully so I can deep link into that site. Whilst at Wes' site I noticed that he's moving his server too. Fortunately, I normally reference his site using a Conversant resource - invoked as |htp| - so all I'll need to so is change the URL in the resource and when pages are served from this site the new URL will automagically be used. Some of the deep-linking URLs will break unfortunately but I'll update these by hand as and when the need arises.