multi-core computing
nounUK /ˌmʌltiˈkɔː kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/
US /ˌmʌltiˈkɔːr kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/
Multi-core computing means using a computer chip with more than one brain to do jobs faster.
Multi-core computing lets a laptop run games and video calls at the same time without slowing down.
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2. A design approach where several processor cores share one chip to boost performance.
Engineers chose multi-core computing to keep the phone cool while it runs many apps.
3. The practice of splitting a program into parts that run on different cores at once.
The team used multi-core computing to speed up their weather simulation.
4. A hardware trend in which chips gain more cores instead of higher clock speeds.
Since clock speeds stopped rising quickly, multi-core computing became the main way to make computers faster.