> Sort of. AIUI, each physical core executes instructions from two separate
> threads on alternate clock cycles. This solves a lot of low-level hardwar=
e
> design issues and allows the physical core to clock faster, since by
> definition, there are no dependencies between adjacent instructions.
>
> As far as the OS or any higher-level software is concerned, there are twi=
ce
> as many cores available, each operating at half the physical clock freque=
ncy.
>  =20
There are some chips that work like this but the intel chips are not=20
among them.
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