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 ...

The processing part of a CPU chip minus the cache. It is made up of the control unit and the arithmetic logic unit (ALU). See control unit and ALU. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

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.