You have thwo things :

- Modern processors come more & more with TWO cores instead of just one (what had been normal for decades)

- Also there is "Hyperthreading", which emulates two processors inside of one REAL processor (core). Intel does this.

A new processor I read about has both : Two cores plus Hyperthreading. Which makes Windows show 4 processors.

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