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A CPU chip containing multiple hyper-threaded or multi-core processing elements is counted as a single CPU.
An SMP kernel is required in a system to take advantage of the hyper-threading or multi threading features supported by a processor. More information about the support policies for the different Red Hat products is available for comparison from the following link:
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