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True or false: a physical cpu core without hyper-threading enabled can process two instructions at the same time.

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Answer: True

Step-by-step explanation:

If the core is sufficently fancy, yes. it is true.

Hyperthreading allows a core to intermingle instructions from two or more threads. The threads don’t actually interact with each other.

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