{"id":280246,"date":"2026-08-11T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/?p=280246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:15:00","slug":"intel-cpus-to-get-hyper%e2%80%91threading-back-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/intel-cpus-to-get-hyper%e2%80%91threading-back-in-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel CPUs To Get Hyper\u2011Threading Back in Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the signs\u2014or perhaps more a symbol\u2014accompanying Intel\u2019s decline in the processor space the company was an unchallenged leader of just a few years ago, was the removal of HT or Hyper\u2011Threading, a technology processing two threads on a single core that significantly boosted multithreaded performance. So much so that the new CEO promised a reintroduction<\/a>. Intel has now confirmed this, providing an outlook on when it will happen.<\/p>\n

Intel has announced Q2 2026 financial results last month and Intel CEO Lip\u2011Bu Tan (who took over last February<\/a> and has since implemented a number of changes within the company) informally revealed the plan for Intel\u2019s future server processors during the associated earnings call. It may actually have been a quick reaction of sorts to AMD\u2019s unveiling of its Epyc 9006 server processors with Zen 6 cores<\/a>, which AMD presented on the Friday before Intel\u2019s earnings announcement, and in doing so also revealed a roadmap for future Zen 7 and Zen 8 generation of processors<\/a>. Intel is heavilly on the defensive against AMD currently, not least because of the missing HT in server products, so it needs to signal customers that they should still keep Intel in their plans.<\/p>\n

Intel currently has Xeon 6 processors on the market\u2014the Sierra Forest lineup with 144 E\u2011Cores<\/a> and the Granite Rapids lineup with up to 128 P\u2011Cores<\/a> (which does still retain HT, because these processors are not yet based on the Lion Cove architecture<\/a> from the Core Ultra 200 Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors, which is where HT was removed).<\/p>\n

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Intel Granite Rapids processor shown by Intel. All smaller components outside the chiplets are not yet mounted on the substrate (Author: Intel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2027: Diamond Rapids Xeons still without HT<\/h3>\n

The next generation of server processors, Xeon 7 with the codename Diamond Rapids, will arrive only in 2027 and will be manufactured on Intel\u2019s 1.8nm process (Intel 18A). It appears that its CPU cores could be derived either from Panther Lake processors<\/a> (Cougar Cove cores) or from future Nova Lake<\/a> generation (Coyote Cove cores). Both core architectures should have implementations developed on the 18A process node, making them candidates. However, just like the versions of these cores used in PC and notebook processors, the server derivatives will not support HT either. Diamond Rapids is reportedly set to offer up to 192 cores in its highest configuration, providing only 192 threads.<\/p>\n

It will be competing against AMD processors with up to 256 Zen 6 cores and 512 threads. For users requiring more threads, Intel will still have Clearwater Forest processors with 288 E\u2011Cores (using the Darkmont architecture). Whether these will deliver significantly higher performance than Diamond Rapids is hard to say, given the usually lower per-core performance of E-Core architectures.<\/p>\n