multicore
adjective
mul·ti·core
ˌməl-tē-ˈkȯr 
-ˌtī-
: having, consisting of, or involving multiple cores
multicore cables
especially
: having multiple computer cores (see core entry 1 sense 1f)
a multicore processor
multicore operations
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By consolidating bandwidth onto fewer fibers, multicore fiber helps lower the total number of transceivers, connectors and related components, reducing both capital expenses and energy consumption.
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Bhupendra Singh, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
The software takes advantage of graphics CUDA and OpenCL hardware acceleration and multicore CPUs with its Adobe Mercury Playback Engine.
—PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
And compared with something more pedestrian, like the Apple iMac, which uses a standard M4 processor, the difference in multicore processing performance is vast.
—PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
The Air M3s are 16 to 18 percent faster in single- and multicore processing than the M2s with the same CPU and GPU core counts.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
Since its launch, the Surface Pro 11 has been put through countless benchmarks; the consensus is that the multicore performance edges out some of the landmark Intel Core i-7 Ultra chipsets.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Moving to multicore processors helped ameliorate that issue for a time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
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Bhupendra Singh, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor.
—Hysell V. Oviedo, The Conversation, 4 June 2025
The software takes advantage of graphics CUDA and OpenCL hardware acceleration and multicore CPUs with its Adobe Mercury Playback Engine.
—PC Magazine, 6 May 2025
And compared with something more pedestrian, like the Apple iMac, which uses a standard M4 processor, the difference in multicore processing performance is vast.
—PCMAG, 11 Mar. 2025
The Air M3s are 16 to 18 percent faster in single- and multicore processing than the M2s with the same CPU and GPU core counts.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
Since its launch, the Surface Pro 11 has been put through countless benchmarks; the consensus is that the multicore performance edges out some of the landmark Intel Core i-7 Ultra chipsets.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Moving to multicore processors helped ameliorate that issue for a time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
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“Multicore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multicore. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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