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The Core Microarchitecture

Background

The Core 2 and Xeon 5100 families of processors belong to the Core microarchitecture. The previous generation Intel desktop chip belongs to the NetBurst microarchitecture, while previous mobile chips belong to the mobile microarchitecture of the Pentium M.

Architectures and Microarchitectures

Intellectual Predecessor

The Energy Efficient Ideas

Instructions Per Clock

Power Consumption

Scalability