At Web Hosting Magic, each virtual CPU (vCPU) is implemented as a single hardware hyper-thread on one of the available CPU Platforms.
A CPU offers multiple physical processors, and each of these processors is referred to as a core.
A single CPU core can run as multiple hardware multi-threads through Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT), which is known on Intel processors as Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
Each hardware multi-thread is called a virtual CPU (vCPU).