multicore

adjective

mul·​ti·​core ˌməl-tē-ˈkȯr How to pronounce multicore (audio)
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: 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

Examples of multicore in a Sentence

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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 Intel currently produces multicore Xeon and Xeon Phi processors and other hardware, but has had no equivalent to the GPUs that currently dominate deep learning. IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2016 None of these machines is designed for heavy, multicore workloads, though. Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024 In our multicore Handbrake video encoding test, Lunar Lake ran behind everything from recent Ryzens to 12th-gen Intel chips, to say nothing of Apple’s M3. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2024 Compared to the 14-inch MacBook Pro M3 laptop, Apple has the single-core win while Microsoft wins on multicore—although the Snapdragon ships with 10 or 12 cores, compared to the eight cores of the M3. Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 This is, arguably, a welcome course correction since 12th-gen Core CPUs seemed to prioritize multicore performance gains at the expense of battery life. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024 The Surface Laptop 13-inch Snapdragon X Plus model beat both the MacBook Air M3 13- and 15-inch models in Geekbench 6 multicore and Cinebench 2024 multicore tests. Tom Warren, The Verge, 25 June 2024 However, in multicore, the OnePlus 12 beat the iPhone 14 Pro Max and came within 10% of the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Anshel Sag, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multicore was in 1900

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“Multicore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multicore. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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