Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
C2Q = 2 x C2D
Definition of TRUE Quad Core = have 4 physical cores. Thus, C2Q qualifies.. so did the QuadFather, as does a server board with 4 single core processors.

Not true quad core examples = Pentium XE and Atom 330

Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
What happens if one thread is placed on one C2D and the other thread is placed on the other C2D, the are both reading from the same memory allocated by "malloc()"
Simple, both goes into each shared cache on each side.