Date   : Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:50:38 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Units of memory, Was: Master Ethernet upgrade

2009/7/29 Rick Murray <rick@...>:

> * - Azumi's "Atom" processor is "hyperthreading" as opposed, I presume
> to dual core. Does this mean, then, that there is only one actual
> processor core while the thing has lots of trickery and magic to make it
> look like two?

Yes. It's a single-core CPU but with trickery that makes it look like
two - the intention being that the design of the processor allows
better execution of parallel threads on the single core, resulting in
better multitasking performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

-- 
Alex Taylor