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Multithreaded and multi-core CPUs

Author: Daniel ETIEMBLE

Publication date: May 10, 2018

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3. Multi-core processors

3.1 Multiprocessors in a single chip

A multithreaded processor is basically the implementation on a single integrated circuit chip of a symmetrical multiprocessor (SMP), or more generally a parallel architecture with several processors. Figure 9 illustrates the difference between a 2nd-order multithreaded processor, a biprocessor and a dual-core processor.

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