why do most processers have twice the threads than the number of cores?

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Was just watching an ltt video and was wondering. Ex: 8 core 16 thread |16 core 32 thread

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Before we had cores we had hyper threading where a CPU could natively divide into two virtual processors.

The cpu maintains two sets of registers so splitting workloads is more efficient than in software multi threading.

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