Hyper-threading (along with some forms of speculative execution which become subject to side channel attacks) is another example of a performance enabling techn

Hyper-threading (along with some forms of speculative execution which become subject to side channel attacks) is another example of a performance enabling technology with unforeseen security vulnerabilities which are nowadays required to be disabled. With the death of Moore's law [1], it's not too surprising that newer CPUs (or at least x86 ones) are still recoiling from Spectre and Meltdown et al. [1] https://youtu.be/MtrZJ4UqSn8?t=1327 https://youtu.be/MtrZJ4UqSn8?t=1327