<b>Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology</b><br>Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) delivers two processing threads per physical core. Highly threaded applications can get more work done in parallel, completing tasks sooner.<br><br><b>Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)</b><br>Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) continues from the existing support for IA-32 (VT-x) and Itanium® processor (VT-i) virtualization adding new support for I/O-device virtualization. Intel VT-d can help end users improve security and reliability of the systems and also improve performance of I/O devices in virtualized environments.<br><br><b>Intel® TSX-NI</b><br>Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions New Instructions (Intel® TSX-NI) are a set of instructions focused on multi-threaded performance scaling.

This technology helps make parallel operations more efficient via improved control of locks in software.<br><br><b>Intel® 64 ‡</b><br>Intel® 64