An interesting rumor suggests that the chip giant might suppress HyperThreading technology in the new Intel Arrow Lake processors, a generation that will arrive sometime in 2024, and that will be the Core Gen15 series, i.e. the direct successor of the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh, whose launch is scheduled for this month of October.

The truth is that this rumor may be hard to believe, but it makes sense, especially considering that we are talking about a generation that will be available in configuration up to 40 coresa huge number that would make HyperThreading it wasn’t really necessaryat least in the market that Intel Arrow Lake is aimed at, which is the high-performance general consumer.

There was also a recent rumor that Intel Arrow Lake could perform up to 21% more than Intel Raptor Lake-S, but according to the source of this new information, this rumor was based on data obtained from early technical samples and therefore was not completely reliable. Actually Core Gen15 improves Meteor Lake performance by up to 40% although they will miss HyperThreading.

If this is confirmed, it is clear that Intel Arrow Lake will represent a very important generational leap, although we must keep in mind that this generation will retain the same division into powerful and high-efficiency cores. This high-end model with 40 cores will be the debut of the Intel Core Ultra 9 brand and will be divided into a block 8 high-performance cores based on the Lion Cove architecture and another block 32 high-performance cores based on the Skymont architecture.

Would it be a wise decision to remove HyperThreading in this new generation of processors? The truth is that it seems somewhat understandable to me, since this technology ultimately benefits only high-performance cores, and taking into account that we are talking about processors for general consumption, which would have a count of up to 40 cores, it is clear that this would be “useless”.

On the other hand, it should be expected that Intel will use Arrow Lake new architectures in high-performance and high-efficiency coresand that it will be a huge improvement in terms of IPC on both base blocks. If we add to this the possible increase in frequencies, the difference in the performance of one thread would be very large in the end, and with those 40 cores in total, removing HyperThreading would not be a problem.