This is not how Intel sees it. They describe hyperthreading as a single core having two (or more, but usually two) sets of architectural state which basically m

This is not how Intel sees it. They describe hyperthreading as a single core having two (or more, but usually two) sets of architectural state which basically means registers. It's not two cores, it is one core that can switch between two different instruction pointers. They share almost everything else apart from the APIC.