stackyFACTSBecause hardware is expensive, engineers figured out how to trick the operating system into seeing double. Hyper-threading takes a single physical processor core and presents it as two distinct virtual cores, allowing it to juggle two separate instruction threads simultaneously without buying extra silicon.
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