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Article: Core Duo facts and figures.(Intel new multiple core processor)(Brief article)
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- Personal Computer World
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- September 21, 2006
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Byline: Gordon Laing
Core Duo facts and figures
Intel's Core Duo (codenamed Yonah) processor replaces the Pentium M (Dothan), and the biggest difference between them is two cores instead of one.
Core Duo's Level 2 cache remains at 2MB, but a major architectural difference is that it's dynamically shared between the two cores.
The Core Duo also supports SSE3 streaming extensions, improving its media performance over the Pentium M, although like the Pentium M before it, there's no Hyperthreading nor support for 64-bit operating systems. Core Duo additionally operates on 533 or 667MHz quad-pumped front-side buses, in contrast to Pentium ...