Alleged documents for “Arrow Lake” have surfaced online, and while they point to a maximum of 24 CPU cores (mirroring Raptor Lake Refresh), support for DDR-6400 memory, and a new 800 Series chipset, they have also led some to believe that Intel’s next-generation CPUs may launch without a familiar feature: Hyper-Threading. “…Hyper-Threading…is a hardware innovation that allows more than one thread to run on each core. More threads means more work can be done in parallel,” Intel writes of the technology, which was originally introduced in 2002 for Xeon and Pentium 4 CPUs. Intel filed a patent early last year that revealed the company was working on a different way of running multiple threads on a single CPU core.
…the 8 P cores are deactivated in the BIOS for this specific test. If, on the other hand, you had HyperThreading on your hardware but also deactivated it for the test, you would have noted this fact in exactly the same place. However, the statement about the possible SMT of the P-cores is “8 threads” – and thus once again indicates that Arrow Lake will no longer have the HyperThreading feature.