diff --git a/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst b/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst
index f7e4606f1..dcdf7803a 100644
--- a/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst
+++ b/documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ following requirements:
    much more will help to run multiple builds and increase
    performance by reusing build artifacts.
 
--  At least &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM, though a modern build host with as
-   much RAM and as many CPU cores as possible is strongly recommended to
-   maximize build performance.
+-  At least &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM and &MIN_CPU_CORES; CPU cores, though a
+   modern build host with as much RAM and as many CPU cores as possible is
+   strongly recommended to maximize build performance.
 
 -  Runs a supported Linux distribution (i.e. recent releases of Fedora,
    openSUSE, CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu). For a list of Linux
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/start.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/start.rst
index 5f0bb37b7..8fa32d473 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/start.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/start.rst
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ particular working environment and set of practices.
     get the hardware together. Ideally, any development, build, or test
     engineer uses a system that runs a supported Linux distribution.
     These systems, in general, should be high performance (e.g. a minimum
-    of &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM and at least &MIN_DISK_SPACE; Gbytes of disk space).
+    of &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM, at least &MIN_DISK_SPACE; Gbytes of disk space
+    and a minimum of &MIN_CPU_CORES; CPU cores).
     You can help ensure efficiency by having any machines used for testing
     or that run Autobuilders be as high performance as possible.
 
diff --git a/documentation/poky.yaml.in b/documentation/poky.yaml.in
index 3e74dd7e7..b7dac4ff3 100644
--- a/documentation/poky.yaml.in
+++ b/documentation/poky.yaml.in
@@ -46,3 +46,5 @@ MIN_DISK_SPACE : "140"
 MIN_DISK_SPACE_RM_WORK : "40"
 # RAM (Gbytes) needed to generate qemux86-64 core-image-sato on Ubuntu 22.04 (x86-64) on a 4 core system
 MIN_RAM : "32"
+# Recommended minimum number of CPU cores
+MIN_CPU_CORES : "16"
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
index d602fa2ca..a0b902aec 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ section of the Development Tasks Manual.
 
 .. _system-requirements-minimum-ram:
 
-Minimum System RAM
-==================
+Minimum System RAM and CPU Cores
+================================
 
 You will manage to build an image such as ``core-image-sato`` for the
-``qemux86-64`` machine with as little as &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM on an old
-system with 4 CPU cores, but your builds will be much faster on a system with
+``qemux86-64`` machine with as little as &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM and
+&MIN_CPU_CORES; CPU cores, but your builds will be much faster on a system with
 as much RAM and as many CPU cores as possible.
 
 .. _system-requirements-supported-distros: