3...Intel® Core™2 Quad processor

The ultimate multi-core performance

Introducing Intel® Core™2 Quad processor for notebook and desktop PCs, designed to handle massive compute and visualization workloads enabled by powerful multi-core technology. Optimized for the longest possible battery life without compromise to performance, Intel Core 2 Quad processors for notebooks allow you to stay unwired longer while running the most compute-intensive applications.
Providing all the bandwidth you need for next-generation highly-threaded applications, the latest four-core Intel Core 2 Quad processors are built on 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture enabling faster, cooler, and quieter mobile and desktop PC and workstation experiences.
Plus, with optional Intel® vPro™ technology, you have the ability to remotely isolate, diagnose, and repair infected desktop and mobile workstations wirelessly and outside of the firewall, even if the PC is off, or the OS is unresponsive.
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With four processing cores, up to 12MB of shared L2 cache,¹ and up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus for notebooks, and up to 12MB of L2 cache² and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus for desktops, the Intel Core 2 Quad processor delivers amazing performance and power efficiency enabled by the all new hafnium-based circuitry of 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture.
Whether you're encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming HD multimedia in the office or on the go, power your most demanding applications with notebooks and desktops based on the Intel Core 2 Quad processor.
Plus, with these processors you get great Intel® technologies built in:
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Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), enabling greater security, manageability, and utilization
Dual Intel® Dynamic Acceleration technology, improving four-core performance by utilizing power headroom of idle cores by dynamically boosting frequency of active cores
Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth
Larger Intel® Advanced Smart Cache optimized for multi-core processors, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications along with Intel® HD Boost utilizing new SSE4 instructions for even greater multimedia performance
Future ready, designed to perform in highly threaded programs with powerful Intel® multi-core technology
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4...Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors

Great computing starts with Intel inside
Maximum everything. Energy-efficient performance. Multimedia power.

Based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family is designed to provide powerful energy-efficient performance so you can do more at once without slowing down.
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo desktop processors
With Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor, you'll experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy-efficiency second to none.
Big, big performance. More energy efficient.¹ Now available in smaller packages. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based desktop PC was designed from the ground up for energy efficiency, letting you enjoy higher performing, ultra-quiet, sleek, and low power desktop PC designs.
Multitask with reckless abandon. Do more at the same time, like playing your favorite music, running virus scan in the background, and all while you edit video or pictures. The powerful Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor provides you with the speed you need to perform any and all tasks imaginable.
Love your PC again. Don’t settle for anything less than the very best. Find your perfect desktop powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and get the best processing technology money can buy. Only from Intel.
• Up to 6MB L2 cache
• Up to 1333 MHz front side bus
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo mobile processors
At the dual-core heart of Intel® Centrino®2 processor technology, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family features a faster FSB (up to 1066 MHz), higher clock speeds, and enhanced microarchitecture technologies, helping to maximize Intel®Centrino®2 processor technology's dual-core performance and power savings.
• 6 MB of total L2 cache
• Up to 1066 MHz front side bus

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Features and benefits

Delivering the best overall performance. Period. With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop and laptop PCs you'll get the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache, up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus for desktop, and up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus for laptop, you've got the future of computing now, and only from Intel:

Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance and smarter battery performance in your laptop

Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications

5...Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor

Intel's newest addition to the Intel® Pentium® processor family with dual-core processor technology that delivers great desktop and mobile performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing.

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OverviewThe Intel Pentium dual-core processor is the newest addition to the Intel Pentium processor family. This dual-core processor delivers high-value performance for multitasking.

Go beyond everyday computingThe Intel Pentium dual-core processor delivers enhanced performance for everyday computing needs such as listening to digital music and editing digital photography and improved responsiveness with office applications.

Smarter, more efficient designsIntel® Smart Cache enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.

6...Intel® Celeron® Processor

Proven Technology, Exceptional Value

The new Intel® Celeron® processor delivers a balanced level of proven technology and exceptional value for desktop PCs. Based on a new energy-efficient microarchitecture, this Celeron processor enables smaller, quieter, and more capable desktop PCs.
Systems based on the Celeron processor are ideal for day-to-day computing, whether in the home, classroom, or office. The Execute Disable Bit¹, a built-in security feature, helps protect your programs and files from viruses, worms, and other malicious attacks. The Celeron processor also includes Intel® 64² architecture, so you can access larger amounts of memory when used with appropriate 64-bit supporting hardware and software. A faster Front Side Bus accelerates access between the processor core and your data for an enhanced computing experience.
When combined with an Intel® Express Chipset-based board, this platform provides a balanced entry level desktop PC. Enjoy integrated Intel® High Definition Audio (Intel® HD Audio) for exceptional audio quality, and Intel® Graphics Media Acceleration (Intel® GMA) which delivers a smooth visual experience. Enter the colorful world of e-learning and digital photography, or perform business activities like data entry, inventory management, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and e-mail.

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Single-Core Processing

New microarchitecture with 800 MHz FSB enhances your computing experience.

Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution
Improves execution speed and efficiency, delivering more instructions per clock cycle.

Intel® Smart Memory Access

Optimizes the use of the data bandwidth from the memory subsystem to accelerate out-of-order execution. A newly designed prediction mechanism reduces the time in-flight instructions have to wait for data. New pre-fetch algorithms move data from system memory into the fast L2 cache in advance of execution. These functions keep the pipeline full, improving instruction throughput and performance.

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost

Significantly improves the media performance on a broad range of applications including video, audio, image and photo processing, multimedia, encryption, financial, engineering, and scientific applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are now issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, effectively doubling speed of execution on a per clock basis over previous generation processors.

Intel® 64² architecture

Allows the desktop processor platform to access larger amounts of memory. With appropriate 64 bit supporting hardware and software, platforms based on an Intel processor supporting 64-bit computing can use extended virtual and physical memory. Intel 64 provides flexibility for 32-bit and 64-bit computing.

Execute Disable Bit¹

Provides enhanced virus protection when deployed with a supported operating system. Allows memory to be marked as executable or non executable, allowing the processor to raise an error to the operating system if malicious code attempts to run in non-executable memory, thereby preventing the code from infecting the system.
Intel Designed Thermal Solution
Intel boxed processors ship with a thermal solution specifically for this processor, designed for maximum thermal and acoustic performance.

¹ Enabling Execute Disable Bit functionality requires a PC with a processor with Execute Disable Bit capability and a supporting operating system. Check with your PC manufacturer on whether your system delivers Execute Disable Bit functionality.² Intel® 64 requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, enabling software and/or operating system, device drivers, and applications designed for these features. Performance will vary depending on your configuration. Contact your vendor for more information.

7...Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core Processor

Energy efficient computing for the desktop PC

Many software applications for everyday tasks are now designed for dual-core processors. With the Intel® Celeron® dual-core processor, you can now take basic computing to new levels; become more creative and productive in the home, office, or classroom.

In addition, security and virus protection often means running more than one application at a time, and the Celeron dual-core processor has the power to run them simultaneously. Based on energy-efficient microarchitecture, the Celeron dual-core processor delivers superior energy-efficient dual-core performance.
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Energy Efficiency

Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, a feature of the Intel Celeron dual-core processor, optimizes energy usage in the processor cores by turning computing functions on only when needed.
Better Acoustics

The acoustic benefit of temperature monitoring is that system fans spin only as fast as needed to cool the system, and slower spinning fans generate less noise.
Platform Support
The flexibility of platform options brings an array of new capabilities.

8...Intel® Xeon® Processor 7000 Sequence

The Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series, offers the industry's highest virtualization performance so you can do more with less. With key platform innovations built-in, the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series offers more headroom, reliability, and the highest expandability for large-scale server consolidation.Product brief: Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series (PDF 478KB)IDC White paper: Choosing the right hardware for server virtualization (PDF 195KB)

Best-in-class performance

With enhanced 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the new Intel Xeon processor 7400 series is best-in-class for demanding enterprise workloads with almost 50% better performance in some cases and up to 10% reduction in platform power compared to previous generation expandable servers.¹ Designed and optimized for IT, these 6-core processors provide industry-leading multi-core processing and greater computing performance without increasing footprint and power demands. With 16MB shared L3 cache, scalability beyond 4 sockets, 1066 million transfers per second (MT/s), and support for up to 256GB of RAM, the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series is the ideal choice for your data-intensive, business-critical performance requirements.

Headroom and scalability built in

Offering more low voltage options including 65W 6-core and 50W 4-core processors, Intel Xeon processor 7400 series for blade and ultra-dense platforms reduce cooling requirements, lowering IT costs. In addition, these processors are designed with Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), enabling an ecosystem of software-based virtualization from industry leading software providers.

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Features and benefits—Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

Features
Benefits
Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series
Leading scalable performance with decreased footprint and power demands
Industry's lowest watt per core platform with available 65 watt processor²
Based on 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture enabling low voltage options for ultra-dense deployments
Compatibility with previous generation Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series
Hardware-assisted virtualization technology
Highest virtualization performance, leading on all industry standard virtualization benchmarks¹
More virtual machines on all servers
Investment protection and flexibility with Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration (Intel® VT FlexMigration)¹
More efficient disaster recovery and high availability through virtualization
Broadest ecosystem support with virtualization software providers and leading OEMs
Up to16 MB, shared L3 cache
Keeps more needed data closer to the cores for access faster than off-chip memory
Intel® 64 architecture²
Enables extended memory addressability for server applications
Enhanced reliability and manageability
Many memory controller features, together with PCI Express* RAS features combine for outstanding platform reliability
Error Correcting Code (ECC) system bus, new memory mirroring and I/O hot-plug

¹ Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), and Intel® 64 architecture require a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, enabling software and/or operating system, device drivers and applications designed for these features. Performance will vary depending on your configuration. Contact your vendor for more information. Up to nearly 50% performance gain and up to 10% reduction in platform power claim details. Results as of September 2008.Performance gain claim based on TPC-E Benchmark detailsIntel® Xeon® processor X7350 based platform detailsFujitsu Simens* Primergy RX600 S4 server platform with four Intel® Xeon® processors X7350 2.93GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 128GB (32x4GB) memory, Microsoft SQL Server* 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, TPC-E 492.32; Price/Performance: USD 559.88. Availability Date 1/1/09; Processors/Cores/Threats - 4/16/16; application benchmark performance certified on Sept 10, 2008 by Fujitsu Simens.Intel® Xeon® processor X7460 based platform detailsIBM* System x 3850 M2 server platform with four Intel® Xeon® processors X7460 (2.66GHz, 16MB L2 cache, 6 cores), 128GB memory, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, TPC-E 729.65; Price/Performance: USD 457.27. Availability Date 10/31/08; Processors/Cores/Threats - 4/24/24; application benchmark performance certified on Sept 15, 2008 by IBM.Reduced platform power claim based on vConsolidate Benchmark on VMware ESX Server* resultscomparison between Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 and 7300 series based on vConsolidate benchmark result measured on Vmware ESX Server v3.5.0 by Intel corporation in September 2008.Intel Xeon processor X7460 and X7350 based platform details:Intel server software development platform (Foxcove) with four Intel Xeon processors X7460 (2.66GHz, 16M L3 Cache, 6-cores) or X7350 (2.93GHz, 8M L2 Cache, 4-cores) 1066 MHz system bus, 8MB L2 cache, Clarksboro chipset, 16x2GB memory FBD PC2-5300F, maximum performance achieved using five CSUs for X7350 and 6 CSUs for X7460. vConsolidate version 2.0 profile 2. Platform power measured as part of the performance measurement showed a 11% reduced power consumption while delivering peak performance. ² 64-bit computing on Intel® architecture requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers, and applications enabled for Intel® 64 architecture. Processors will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel 64 architecture-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. Consult with your system vendor for more information.

9...Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000 Sequence

The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, and reliability of Intel® Xeon® processor-based server systems make them the ideal choice for all of your data demanding or standard enterprise infrastructure applications.
Intel® processor-based servers enable businesses worldwide to do more and spend less—with outstanding price/performance and broad 64-bit choice across OEMs, operating systems, and applications. Supported by a single stable mainstream 2P server platform supporting a range of CPU options for IT flexibility, investment protection and easy migration.
Reliable, efficient, proven performance. Why would you depend on anything else? Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers deliver it all. Put Intel® server technology to work in your data center.
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Features and benefits
Features
Benefits
Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series
Up to 2x better performance than previous-generation dual-core and 5x better than single-core¹
Up to 20 percent better performance and 38 percent better performance per watt than previous-generation quad-core²
Intel Xeon processor 5300 series
64-bit, quad-core computing with large 8 MB on-die cache
Up to 4 times the performance versus previous-generation single-core processors³
Better performance/watt than Intel Xeon processor 5100 series-based platformsξ
Intel Xeon processor 5200 series
Supports two dual PCI second-generation adapters that enable users to visualize and process greater computationally intensive workloads
Denser, more powerful HPC designs
Improved store and forward algorithms and advanced I/O enable users to quickly and efficiently process parallel workflows
Intel Xeon processor 5100 series
Breakthrough performance at up to 3 times the performance versus previous-generation single-core processors
Enhanced power-efficient technologies for over 3 times performance/watt∂
Wide range of 65 watt SKUs for performance-optimized deployments, plus 40 watt SKUs for ultra-dense deployments
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)±
Enables more operating systems and software to run in today's virtual environments
Developed with virtualization software providers to enable greater functionality and compatibility compared to non-hardware-assisted virtual environments
Intel® 64 architectureΦ
Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems
Fully buffered DIMM technology
Up to 21 GB/s for 3 times the increase in memory bandwidth over previous memory technology
Up to 4 times the memory capacity up to 64 GB
Enhanced reliability, availability, and serviceability features
Intel® I/O Acceleration TechnologyΔ (Intel® I/OAT)
Moves data more efficiently for fast, scalable, and reliable network performance
Ability to significantly reduce CPU overhead, freeing resources for more critical tasks
Enhanced reliability and manageability
Many memory controller features, together with PCI Express RAS features, combine to help improve platform reliability vs. previous-generation platforms
New features include Error Correcting Code (ECC) system bus, new memory mirroring and I/O hot-plug
¹ Intel® Xeon® processor x5460 series delivers up to 119% (2.19x) higher performance when compared to Intel Xeon processor 5160 series as published/measured using SPECjbb2005* in November 12th, 2007. Intel Xeon processor x5460 series delivers up to 443% (5.43x) when compared to single-core 64-bit Intel Xeon processor 3.80GHz as published/measured using SPECint*_rate_base2006 in November 12th, 2007.
² Intel® Xeon® processor x5460 series delivers up to 20% (1.25x) higher performance when compared to Intel Xeon processor 5365 series as published/measured using SPECjbb2005* in November 12th, 2007. Intel Xeon processor 5450 series delivers up to 38% (1.38x) higher performance per watt when compared to Intel Xeon processor E5335 as published/measured using SPECjbb2005* in November 12th, 2007.
³ For further information see www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/app.htm
ξ For further information see www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/ppw.htm
Δ Microsoft will support Intel® I/OAT in future Microsoft Windows Server* releases. For more information, visit www.intel.com/go/ioat
Φ 64-bit computing on Intel® architecture requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers, and applications enabled for Intel® 64 architecture. Processors will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel 64 architecture-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. Consult with your system vendor for more information.
± Intel® Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and, for some uses, certain platform software enabled for it. Functionality, performance or other benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations and may require a BIOS update. Software applications may not be compatible with all operating systems. Please check with your application vendor.