The Intel Core 2 Duo processor family announced on 27 July 2006 consists of five desktop PC processors, tailored for business, home and enthusiast users, and five mobile PC processors designed to fit the needs of a mobile lifestyle. The desktop part comprises around 291 million transistor on … [Read more...]
Intel CoreSolo
Intel Core Solo uses the same two core die as the Core Duo, but features only one active core. There remains a high demand for single-core mobile processors, and it is more economic for Intel to disable one of the cores of the existing dual-core design than to launch a new production line of … [Read more...]
Intel CoreDuo Release date and History
The Intel Core Duo processor (previously codenamed Yonah) was Intel's first mobile dual-core processor built on the company's next generation 65nm process technology. This has enabled a pair of Yonah cores to be fit onto a die only slightly larger than the previous Dothan-cored Pentium M … [Read more...]
SSE4 – Intel’s enhanced multimedia focussed CPU instruction set
SSE4 is a set of instructions released in conjunction with Intel's Penryn processor. SSE4, built upon the Intel 64 Instruction Set Architecture, represented Intel's first major change to its instruction set for some time, and followed smaller changes introduced (in the guise of … [Read more...]