quad core
Four-processor chip design
Quad core describes a processor with four independent processing units on a single chip, allowing computers to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
The term appears as both adjective and noun: a quad-core laptop, this chip is a quad core.
Also written as one word or hyphenated: quadcore, quad-core.
- processorComponent that executes instructions
- CPUMain computing chip
- multicoreHaving several processors
- threadsTwisted fiber strands
- thread countWoven density measurement
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- processorsCPU, processor, microprocessor, Pentium, microchip
- CPU speedsclock rate, gigahertz, megahertz, overclock, hertz
- concurrencythreads, deadlock, semaphore, atomic, race condition