A quad-core processor is like a dual-core processor, but with four cores instead of two. Multi-core processors with more than four cores are also possible.

A central processing unit in a smartphone. Smartphone processors, which typically have multiple processing cores, are generally combined with other components on a single system-on-chip (see SoC). See ...

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A dual-core processor chip can often provide better performance than a traditional single-core processor, however it is not automatically twice as fast. Software - including the system OS and/or ...

(1) In a virtualized server environment, a virtual processor is a CPU core that is assigned to a virtual machine. There can be more virtual processors assigned than actual cores available, which ...