Combining two into one to make something faster is an old practice in the tech industry. We RAID our hard drives together to get better performance and use our memory modules in dual channel for the same. With PCI-E slots, we saw SLi come back into action as well. Even multi-CPU systems have existed for a very long time, however, their use in a standard desktop/home environment hasn’t been pushed much. Looks like the time to take care of that has arrived as both Intel and AMD recently announced their Dual Core CPUs.

Just to refresh the non-technical people, every CPU has a core which is what the CPU is all about. Since most of the CPUs are covered with a heat spreader nowadays, you usually cannot see where the core of the CPU lies. The following is a picture of AMD’s previous generation Athlon XP CPU which does not have a heat spreader and the blue-ish rectangle you see in the middle of the front of the CPU is where the core lies.