The full performance potential of the Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology architecture can be realized by efficiently multi-threading applications, using the methods detailed in this paper. The use of balanced threading techniques is likely to provide optimal performance improvements on CMP. Multi-tasking scenarios, one of the common usage scenarios, provide a richer user experience on the Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology system. The shared cache structure is likely to showcase better performance scaling for MT applications when the threads work on shared data sets. Avoid using false sharing which impacts performance scaling. The optimization guide mentioned earlier provides a detailed explanation of these and other performance optimization techniques.