What is Hyperthreading in CPU'S?

[mr 333]

What is hyperthreading?? I tried google,wiki but could not get any satisfying answers.Can someone please explain me??? I have heard that you can do it only on Intel chips.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Really? - this page didn't give you any understanding about the topic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

 

[dudio]

Hyperthreading is threading that's hyper

Check this easy to understand analogy of Hyper Threading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnS50lJicXc

 

[SkyNetRising]

That's a funny video.
But analogy there was quite good actually.