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difference between core and cpu

What is the difference between a CORE and a CPU?

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March 24, 2009 11:39 PM

A CPU can be made up of several cores on an integrated circuit.

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March 25, 2009 12:42 AM

A CPU is a processor chip, a core means that the chip may have more than one CPU inside. A dual core CPU is one chip with two CPUs within, quad core has four, etc. Single core is an oxymoron.

Why? Because there's a limit to how much we can shrink CPUs, but it means that the space that used to hold one CPU, can now hold 16. 16 CPUs working in parallel is better than one CPU.

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