Intel Corp (INTC)

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Core's single-thread performance is so much higher than its competitors that it could afford a 5-10% single-thread hit for the throughput advantage of having two extra threads per core. To counteract this potential single-thread hit the core could be made beefier for use with four threads or more clock-speed dialled in to compensate in a smaller process. This is not Pentium 4 vs Athlon64 where every single-thread performance percentage point counted in evaluations.