Does the Mac mini (2018) support Intel Hyper-Threading? I am using a Mac mini (2018) with a 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5 processor. My understanding is that this chip has 6 physical cores.

The Activity Monitor shows performance graphs for 6 cores. On other Macs with Hyper-Threading enabled by default, Activity Monitor shows the number of effective/virtual cores, i.e., twice the number of physical cores.

So does the display of 6 cores on this Mac mini mean:


Hyper-Threading is not offered by this chip?
Hyper-Threading is disabled by default by Apple now (likely because of the Intel CPU flaws)?
This chip really has only 3 cores, and 6 virtual?
Hyper-Threading is offered by some models of CPUs in the 2018 Mac Mini. The base-level 3.0 Ghz Core i5 does not offer Hyper-Threading however.

I'm writing this on a 2018 Mac Mini with the 3.2 Ghz Core i7 CPU - and it does indeed display 12 graphs in Activity Monitor indicating that Hyper-Threading is enabled and used.