A:Answer Because Intel 12th gen processors have two different kinds of cores in them. This particular one has 8 traditional cores and 6 e-cores (for efficiency, I think) that are supposed to function differently under load than the traditional cores. The e-cores cannot be hyper-threaded, so while there are 14 physical cores in this processor, there are only 20 logical cores (instead of the 28 that would be expected from previous generations), 8 that can be hyperthreaded (8 x 2 = 16 logical cores) and 6 that cannot.
