[dba-Tech] Chip terminology

Not necessarily. I5's have either 2 or 4 cores according to all the spec
lists including Intel sites. Look it up yourself.

All have 4 theads but some do it with two cores with two threads per core.

GK

On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> An i5 intel should have 4 cores.
>
> Jim
>
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> Subject: [dba-Tech] Chip terminology
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> 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,
>
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