Why does the i7 processor report 8 cores?

[sam tygier]

On 01/02/11 04:35, Bill Stanley wrote:
> I have an i7-860 processor in my computer. Linux (and Windows) report it to have 8 cores available. I checked on the specs of the chip and the specs say that it has 4 cores and 8 threads. It seems that the OS is counting the treads as cores. It really doesn't matter much but can somebody out there explain the discrepancy?
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> Bill Stanley
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run
lscpu
to see exactly what linux sees.