Japanese NEC announced that it has succeeded in the development of multicore processor technology capable of performing automatic multithreading without the need to adapt software. According to the company, it is based on an automatic compiler, which uses profile information of applications to exploit parallelization patterns. With NEC’s method, a program would run 2.83 times faster on four processors, compared to a single one, while a recompiled software would perform only 1.95 times faster.