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Hardware Basics #2: CPU — Cores, Threads, Clock, Cache, and What a vCPU Really Is
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Hardware Basics #2: CPU — Cores, Threads, Clock, Cache, and What a vCPU Really Is

The difference between cores and threads, why clock speed alone cannot compare performance, how cache governs speed, and what the cloud actually means by a vCPU. Understand the CPU as behavior, not as a spec sheet.