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A multi-core CPU (also known as chip-level multiprocessing) is a single CPU package that contains two or more independet processing cores. These cores may be all on one die (i.e. Athlon 64 X2), each on a seperate die (i.e. Pentium D), or multiple dies each with several cores (i.e. Core 2 Quad). The CPU cores may or may not share caches, bus intefaces, or memory controllers. Multi core processors increase the total amount of execution resources available to threads.