Intel's 9th-gen Core i7-9700K abandons Hyper-Threading: What it could mean for performance

Core i7, the boss wants to talk to you. The good news: you got a promotion and a bump from six cores up to eight cores in Intel's 9th generation CPU lineup. Woo-hoo! The bad news: Turn in your Hyper-Threading, because the cool feature that gave you virtualized CPU cores and about 30 percent more performance is gone. Yup. If you're freaked out about the Core i7 losing a premier performance-boosting feature that it's offered since, well, there was a Core i7, you may well be right to be concerned. ...