Dual core introduction

Before 2005, the main frequency has been the focus of the two major processor giants Intel and AMD. Moreover, the processor clock speed has also reached one peak after another with the promotion of Intel and AMD. At the same time when the processor clock speed is increased, it has also been found that in the current situation, the increase in the clock frequency alone cannot provide overall system performance. The improvement brought about by the obvious changes, along with the high frequency also brought huge heat to the processor, even more unfavorable is the Intel and AMD two processors in the frequency increase has been somewhat powerless. In this case, both Intel and AMD will invariably invest in the multi-core development direction, and develop existing products into theoretically more powerful multi-core processor systems without large-scale development.

A dual-core processor has two equally functional processor cores on one processor based on a single semiconductor, which is to integrate two physical processor cores into one core. In fact, the dual-core architecture is not a new technology. Until then, the dual-core processor has been the patent of the server. Now it is gradually facing ordinary users.

In general, although the performance of dual-core processors has been improved compared with single-core processors, considering that most of the current applications, such as Office applications, games, video playback, and other applications are single-threaded, For most users, choosing a single-core processor is still the best choice. For users of professional video, 3D animation and 2D image processing, it is necessary to consider the dual-core system.