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Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor

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Intel® Core™2 Duo     Powerful. Energy efficient. Leading CPU performance.
  • 45nm-based enabling high performance and power savings
  • Up to 1066 MHz FSB
  • New line of fully-featured 25W TDP CPUs to enable thinner, cooler designs
At the dual-core heart of Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family features a faster FSB (up to 1066 MHz), higher clock speeds, and enhanced microarchitecture technologies, helping to maximize Intel Centrino 2 processor technology's dual-core performance and power savings. The family also includes an innovative line of fully featured 25W Thermal Design Power (TDP) CPUs, requiring fewer cooling technologies, enabling thinner, lighter, and cooler Intel Centrino 2 processor technology-based systems. Intel Core 2 Duo processor also includes innovative power-saving technologies to maximize dual-core CPU energy efficiency.

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Features and benefits

With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop and laptop PCs you'll get the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 4MB of shared L2 cache, up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus for desktop, and up to 667 MHz Front Side Bus for laptop, you've got the future of computing now, and only from Intel:

  1. Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

  2. Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance and smarter battery performance in your laptop

  3. Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

  4. Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors

  5. Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications

Δ Intel® processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See www.intel.com/products/processor_number/ for details.
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