"Most of today's operating systems and desktop applications, such as interactive games, are multi-threaded for use on multi-processor systems, providing higher performance. In these systems, separate processors and supporting hardware and firmware schedule and execute code in parallel (http://cedar.intel.com/media/training/hyper_threading_intro/tutorial/index.htm)." Basically, with this Hyper-Threading Technology, a single Desktop Hyper-Threading-enabled processor can simultaneously process two threads of code, improving the performance of multi-threaded code running on a single processor.
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