[dba-Tech] Chip terminology

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 07:51:31 CDT 2013


Belarc Advisor tells me my laptop contains a 2.5 Gz Intel Core i5-3210M
CPU. Beneath that it says Multi-core (2 total)
Hyper-threaded (4 total)

Which I take to mean that it's a dual-core chip, but I don't understand
what the Hyper-threaded number means. Can someone clue me in?

TIA,

-- 
Arthur


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