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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Qualcomm claims that the X2 Elite Extreme gets up to 39 percent faster peak single-core performance and 50 percent multicore performance over the previous generation.
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Luke Larsen, Wired News, 24 Sep. 2025
However, Intel’s plan to integrate Nvidia’s technology into its CPUs is unlikely to give it an edge over rival Advanced Micro Devices, which already offers processors with strong multicore performance at lower prices, Citi said.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
This is a step down from the core counts offered for both Meteor Lake and some earlier 13th-generation Core CPUs (the fastest Meteor Lake chops had six P-cores and eight E-cores), and many of Intel's charts indicate that Lunar Lake's peak multicore performance is lower overall.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024
Moving to multicore processors helped ameliorate that issue for a time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
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Luke Larsen, Wired News, 24 Sep. 2025
However, Intel’s plan to integrate Nvidia’s technology into its CPUs is unlikely to give it an edge over rival Advanced Micro Devices, which already offers processors with strong multicore performance at lower prices, Citi said.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
This is a step down from the core counts offered for both Meteor Lake and some earlier 13th-generation Core CPUs (the fastest Meteor Lake chops had six P-cores and eight E-cores), and many of Intel's charts indicate that Lunar Lake's peak multicore performance is lower overall.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 3 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 10 Oct. 2025.
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