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A processor is a very difficult thing to understand all in one sitting. You will have to do some research about it yourself. If you don't know English all that well, Wikipedia.org[^] has several language translations. But a link to an English article about multi-core microprocessors is here[^].

To give you a light overview of the core:
You are right, on a high level the "core", technically known as a die, is a physical aspect of the processor; but it is actually just a name for a group of specialized components. This is the main area of computing and largely includes the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)[^], a series of registers[^] (or boolean gates), and some tri-state[^] buffers whose functions are essentially "on", "off", and "disconnect". This is a gross understatement of the core, so to get a better idea of what it looks like, check out this picture[^] of the core, or die, of an x86 Pentium processor.

From application to processor:
Any piece of software on the computer, the Operating System (such as Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, BSD, etc.), or any application that you install and use, and even any application that you may write, must all be converted at some point into a language known as Assembly Code[^]. This language is not standard for all processors and accompanying hardware, the name Assembly Code just refers to all languages that must directly be interpreted by the hardware. A single processor can only ever do one thing at a time, but today's processors operate so fast that it gives the illusion of real multitasking. The applications simply get in line and wait for their turn to pass an instruction through the processor. The speed in which the instructions are processed is determined by the clock speed[^].

Now, the real performance gain is in having more than one processor operating at one time. There are many ways to achieve this; one way, like you mentioned, is to have multiple cores on one or more chip(s). The quad core processors are 4 die arranged around the necessary input/output operators. So you are roughly getting the performance of 4 independent processors. In my experience, and this is just my opinion, I would much rather have two (or more) independent processors than one multi core processor. The two independent processors have double the pin count and can physically handle more data I/O than a multi core setup.

I know this response was rather lenghy, but I hope it gave you somewhere to start learning about processors. There should be plenty of material from Wikipedia to keep you busy for a while, too.
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