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12 Answers 12. You have to look at sockets and cores per socket. In this case you have 1 physical CPU (socket) which has 4 cores (cores per socket). I have one socket, two cpus per socket, so that would mean a total of 2.
Single Core. In the case of a computer with a single CPU core, only one task runs at any point in time, meaning that the CPU is actively executing instructions for that task. Multitasking solves this problem by scheduling which task may run at any given time and when another waiting task gets a turn. Figure 1. Single-core systems schedule tasks on 1 CPU to multitask Multicore. When running on a multicore system, multitasking OSs can truly execute multiple tasks concurrently.