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Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors
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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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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:

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

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

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

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

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

 
 
Demo: Multicore demystified
Get inside Intel's amazing multicore technology and discover the benefits of dual- and quad-core technology.
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  "...the fastest mobile processor we have seen in our testlab"
  
  
 

 
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