On: Does simultaneous multithreading still make sense?

[metaphor]

FYSA, SMT in this context is simultaneous multithreading a.k.a. hyperthreading, not surface mount technology.

Hardware folks can safely move on.

[saagarjha → metaphor]

And not “Satisfiability modulo theories” either, it seems. I would never recommend people to “move on” from an interesting article, though.

[metaphor → saagarjha]

Agreed.

At first glance, I genuinely thought this was going to be a pitch for yet another fragile additive manufacturing toy with narrow usecase, or a new process that enables IPC-7092 designs on the cheap.

[p1necone → metaphor]

I read it as Shin Megami Tensei, but that's even less likely.

[willis936 → metaphor]

What makes you think ISA design is not in the wheelhouse of “hardware folks”?

[metaphor → willis936]

It was a half-hearted remark in passing targeted towards the class of "hardware folks" who might care about the finer details of surface mount technology. Try not to get too offended.

[vilaca → metaphor]

Imagine my confusion, I clicked thinking I was going to read an article discussing 'Through-Hole vs. Surface' mounting of PCB components.