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Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology
Volume 10    Issue 02    Published May 15, 2006
ISSN 1535-864X    DOI: 10.1535/itj.1002.01
  Section 1 of 11  
Introduction to Intel® Core™ Duo processor architecture
Simcha Gochman, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation
Avi Mendelson, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation
Alon Naveh, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation
Efraim Rotem, Mobility Group, Intel Corporation

Index words: Intel® Core™ Duo, low power, CMP, multi-threading

Citation for this paper: Gochman, S.; Mendelson, A.; Naveh, A.; Rotem, E. "Introduction to Intel® Core™ Duo Processor Architecture." Intel® Technology Journal. http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/2006/volume10issue02/
art01_Intro_to_Core_Duo/p01_abstract.htm
(May 2006).
Abstract

The Intel® Core™ Duo processor is a new member of the Intel® mobile processor product line. It is the first Intel® mobile microarchitecture that uses CMP (Core Multi-Processor; i.e., multi cores on die) technology. Targeted to the market of general-purpose mobile systems, the Intel® Core™ Duo processor was built to achieve high performance, while consuming low power and fitting into different thermal envelopes.

In order to achieve the required performance, a CMP-based microarchitecture was designed to achieve power-efficient architecture, each performance improvement was evaluated against the power cost, and only the power-efficient performance features were implemented.

On top of that, special hardware mechanisms were added to better control the static and the dynamic power consumption. As a result, the Intel® Core™ Duo processor provides higher performance in the same form factors without needing to increase the cooling capability.

  Section 1 of 11  

In this article
Abstract
Introduction
The improved Pentium® M processor-based cores
CMP-General structure
Power control
Thermal design point
Platform power management
Intel® Core™ Solo processor
Conclusion
References
Authors' biographies
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