What are the differences between a thread and a core in a CPU?

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What are the differences between a thread and a core in a CPU?

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A core is like a brain in the CPU chip.

A thread is like a train of thought.

A CPU with lots of cores is like having multiple people (and their brains) working on something.

Multi-threading is like multitasking, switching from two trains-of-thought depending on context.

(Computers are of course different to human brains, so the pros and cons of having more cores/brains or changing how many threads/thoughts you work on at once is different.)

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