I usually call the CPU cores physical cores and logical cores. So a CPU might have 6 physical cores and 12 logical cores. Meaning that it has 6 real cores, but it shows up as 12 because of hyper threading.
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Reading about Kernel processes and executing threads makes very little sense compared to a hardware core with two threads.
For me it's the opposite: a hardware core "having two threads" still sounds a bit strange. It can run two threads at the same time. Maybe Intel should have invented a better name for the thread-runner-thingie.
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