One way to reduce power requirements and hardware sprawl is to use more efficient and power$-$saving processors. Contemporary microprocessors now feature more than one processing cores on a single chip. Today you$$ll find PCs with dual$-$core, quad$-$core, six$-$core, and eight$-$core processors and servers with $16-$ and $32-$core processors.

Which of the following is a microprocessor to which two or more processing cores have been attached for enhanced performance?

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Cloud computing

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Power$-$saving processor

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Grid computing

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Multicore processor