Intel has projected that by the end of next year more than 70% of desktop and mobile Pentium processors and 85% of server processors shipped will be dual-core. Dual-core and multicore processing, combined with hyper-threading, works by allowing one processor core to function as two or more "logical" cores. This boosts the amount of work a processor can do in the same time as a processor with a single core. Analyst firm Gartner said dual-core x86 systems will offer price/performance benefits. How large these will be is difficult to say until Intel introduces its fully-fledged dual-core processors (code-named Dempsey), which will include technology to make the two cores work together more efficiently.
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