The new Intel Core 2 Duo. On the right is the high-performance variant.

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Intel Core 2 Duo Processor

The Intel Core 2 Duo central processing unit is Intel Corporation's next-generation computer chip. It is set to replace the company's popular Centrino and Pentium 4 products, which were designed for laptops and desktops respectively, with a single, more powerful offering. According to the company, the Intel Core Duo will be be 40% faster than its predeccessors, as well as 40% more energy efficient. No release date has yet been set but it is predicted that the new processors will be released sometime around June or July, 2006. CPU redirects here. ... The following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. ... An integrated circuit (IC) is a thin chip consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors, as well as passive components like resistors. ... Centrino is a platform marketing initiative from Intel for a particular combination of CPU, mainboard chipset and wireless network interface in the design of a laptop personal computer. ... New Intel Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading logo The Pentium 4 is a seventh-generation x86 architecture microprocessor produced by Intel and is their first all-new CPU design, called the NetBurst architecture, since the Pentium Pro of 1995. ... Laptop with touchpad. ... Desktop computer with several common peripherals (Monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, microphone and a printer) A desktop computer is an independent personal computer that is made especially for use on a desk in an office or home. ... In physics and engineering, including mechanical and electrical engineering, energy efficiency is a dimensionless number, with a value between 0 and 1 or with times 100 given in percent. ...

Architecture

The Core 2 Duo processors are abandoning the Pentium 4's Netburst architechture, which involved very high clock speeds and very long stage pipelines, for a new shorter pipeline, which AMD has been using in their Athlon 3000+ processors, up to thier FX-60 CPUs. The long pipelines of the Pentium 4 processors, which contained a 31 stage pipeline, is being replaced with a newer pipeline that is about 14 stages. (Intel Core Microarchitecture [1])

Models of the Core 2 Duo

As of now, there are confirmed reports of certain models of the desktop processor line. The desktop models of the Core 2 Duo are codenamed Conroe, while the mobile models are coded Merom. There should be four variants of Conroe, with the model number of E6XX for the desktop line.

E6700

• 2.67GHz; 4MB L2 Cache

E6600

• 2.5GHz; 4MB L2 Cache

E6400

• 2.13GHz; 2MB L2 Cache

E6300

• 1.8GHz; 2MB L2 Cache

Extreme Edition

• 2.8-3.2GHz; 4MB L2 Cache

Performance

At the IDF (Intel Developer Forum) in 2006, Intel compared their E6700 variant with AMD's flagship processor, the AMD Athlon FX-60. Andandtech.com had a chance to use and compare the two machines, and it seemed that the Intel Core 2 Duo processor wiped the floor with the FX-60. [2]

External Links and References

• http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2713&p=2

• http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2170

• http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=787