Intel plans to introduce a new logotype for its Pentium 4 processors with HyperThreading technology implemented. The company has not made a lot of changes in the habitual “Intel Inside Pentium 4” logo, simply adding “H” and “T” letters on the right side of the picture. Here you can evaluate the efforts of Intel`s designers.

Customers will surely notice this new logotype on the Pentium 4 processor’s retail boxes as well as on stickers usually installed on the front panel of a system case. Intel already used to add letters representing new technologies implemented in their CPUs. For example, I remember the original Pentium logotype, where the processor-giant added “MMX” letters in early 1997 together with the unveiling of the new Pentium MMX CPU.

I remind you that Intel plans to enable all its Pentium 4 processors starting from 3.06GHz model with the ability to work with two independent threads without switching between them. Such approach resembles an ordinary SMP system. However, we should understand that the pattern only functions when there are blocks that stand idle, as a result, we cannot compare such system to a computer with two processors. According to Intel, when HyperThreading supporting software is used, the upcoming processors can offer up to 30% more performance than the predecessors without it. Nevertheless, servers that already have this technology enabled in Intel Xeon processors, demonstrated 15% performance increase in the best case.

Intel wants HyperThreading to become the key-technology in their up and coming Pentium 4 3.06 and 3.2GHz, as well as Prescott code-named CPUs, manufactured using 0.09 microns technology and launched in the second quarter 2003.