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Intel® Roadmap Directions 2007 A Resource Guide for CIOs and IT Professionals April – June 2007
Always at the forefront of innovation, Intel announces a new brand called Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology. This next generation platform utilizes an enhanced version of the Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processors that deliver innovative and popular features designed for desktop business PCs called Intel® vPro™ processor technology into its forthcoming highperformance laptop offering. Also Intel® Core™2 Duo processor based PCs and notebooks, with Microsoft Windows Vista*, continue to deliver blistering performance and the power to do more than ever before. Plus in this edition, you’ll know more about Quad-Core superlative performance for two-way servers and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 3200 series for one-way servers, and how they are becoming the processor of choice across businesses.
Intel® Centrino® Pro gives IT Managers Wireless Management and Security Capabilities Intel meets the growing demands of mobility with a new brand - Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology - that extends its innovative and popular features designed for desktop business PCs called Intel® vPro™ processor technology into its forthcoming high-performance laptop offering. IT departments will be able to reliably manage both desktops and notebooks and deal with what plagues them most - security threats, cost of ownership, resource allocation, and asset management - and do so wirelessly. Another facet of the Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology allows administrators to manage both wired notebooks and desktop PCs regardless of their power state or the health of the PC1. The result is better protected PCs, increased IT department compliance, more accurate PC inventories, fewer desk-side visits and less interruption to business. Now business notebook users will benefit from the highly acclaimed Core 2 Duo processors, which are at the heart of the platform. The latest versions offer higher performance while also delivering outstanding energy efficiency and battery life. Users will also enjoy improved graphics performance and support for Microsoft Windows Vista’s* latest graphic interface Aero*. In addition, the optional Intel® Turbo Memory means users can experience up to two times faster performance when loading frequently-used applications, and up to 20 percent faster boot time.2
Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology - Changing how business computes Built-in manageability and proactive security Extends cost saving manageability and security beyond desktops to notebooks even when systems are off or OS is inoperable1
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Dual-Core performance Intel® Core™2 Duo processor l Greater than 2x performance boost, same great battery life3, energy efficiency l New, smaller, lighter notebooks l
More Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology innovation Up to 2x greater range and 5x faster wireless performance than 802.11a/g solutions with the optional Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N and a Draft 802.11n access point¤. l Industry supported wireless 64-bit support for demanding applications Vista* ready l Improved OS- level security l
http://www.intel.com/business/centrinopro/
Intel® Core™2 Duo processors - Multiply Performance. Maximise Workforce Power Effortless multitasking and ground breaking energy efficient performance with Windows Vista* With PCs based on unrivaled Intel® Core™2 Duo processors, you'll experience revolutionary energy-efficient performance and breakthrough system responsiveness. Increase productivity and do more at once, like finding the information you need while using and sharing this information with multiple compute-intensive programs running simultaneously. With Intel® Core™2 Duo processors, you improve the Microsoft Windows Vista* experience and nearly everything you do.
Better multitasking, powerful graphics and enhanced reliability Intel® Core™2 Duo processors support Windows Vista's multithreaded architecture, allowing you to run several demanding applications at once while virus scans, communications and other applications run in the background. The combination of Intel® Core™2 Duo processors and the latest Intel® integrated graphics is Windows Vista Premium Ready.
Breathtaking performance with multithreaded applications Intel® Core™2 Duo processors help you get the most out of multithreaded applications, such as Microsoft Office Excel* 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator* 2007, and Microsoft Office Groove* 2007.
Enhanced security Windows Vista includes virus protection, encryption, wireless security, and internet safety features designed to keep your data safe. Running these background protections on PCs with Intel® Core™2 Duo processors keeps you working productively without a hitch.
“The combination of Intel® Core™2 Duo processor and Intel® Chipsets with the latest integrated graphics are Windows Vista Premium Ready, and will help users experience all the terrific benefits of Windows Vista…” Kevin Johnson, co-president, Microsoft Services2
http://www.intel.com/core2duo http://www.intel.com/intel/windowsvista/business.htm
Quad-Core Reality through Practical Innovation Offering the industry's first standard high-volume quad-core server microprocessor Intel today offers the industry's first standard, high-volume quad-core server microprocessor. Intel is shipping Quad-Core Xeon® processors that deliver breakthrough performance, energy-efficiency, stability, reliability and best in class Virtualization for servers.
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Lower power 64-bit quad-core processors4 based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture that improves performance per watt, delivering up to 50% more performance over dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors within the same power envelope Intel® Virtualization Technology5, which provides hardware-assisted Virtualization, and the broadest industry Virtualization software support combine to help optimise data center effectiveness and consolidate more applications on fewer servers
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New dual independent point-to-point bus and faster front side bus speed driving up to 3x bandwidth improvements versus single-core Intel® Xeon® processors with DDR2-400 memory
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Fully buffered DDR2 DIMM memory (FB-DIMM) for more throughput, higher capacity and improved reliability
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The server has been designed to support the future generations of multi-core processors, assuring investment protection and a smooth upgrade path for servers
“Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series~-based systems will increase the number of threads available to many applications, making the throughput much more attractive at lower price points.” Bill Laing, GM, Microsoft Windows Server Division*
“Since Oracle solutions are already multi-threaded, customers will see the performance and power benefits of Intel’s new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 processor technology immediately.” Richard Sarwal, VP server performance, Oracle Corporation*
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 Series Energy-Efficient Quad-Core processors for 1-way servers
Intel's newest quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200~ series for servers brings new levels of energy-efficient performance. The quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 series is based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and delivers industry leading performance over previous generations of Intel processors. This state-of-the-art, multi-core optimised microarchitecture delivers a number of new and innovative features that are setting higher standards in energy-efficient performance. The quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 series is well suited for basic enterprise applications and building small, cost-effective High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters that create high-performance, personal supercomputing solutions or work-group clusters.
Intel offers dual-core and quad-core processors for Enterprise Computing Below are the four processor number sequences for server applications ~
Processor sequence
Used for
Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 sequence featuring the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 series and the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 series
Economical, dependable, general-purpose 1-way servers well-suited for small business, the basic enterprise server needs, and low-cost HPC
Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence
Volume DP servers/workstations based on the Intel® Xeon® processor
Intel® Xeon® processor 7000 sequence
Greater scalability than DP platforms with MP enterprise servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor MP
Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9000 sequence
Maximum performance and scalability for RISC replacement usage
“The power behind this lightening fast query response time is Intel's first quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series, and our combined strengths and collaboration will bring the scale and momentum needed to drive this significant enterprise transformation” Nimish Mehta, senior vice president, Enterprise Information Management, SAP*
http://download.intel.com/products/processor/xeon/31545302.pdf
Itanium® 2-based Servers are changing the Economics of Business-Critical Computing As companies worldwide move toward a real-time computing model for core business applications, the cost of downtime is growing. Itanium-based solutions provide a cost-effective way to meet rising requirements, with enterprise-class solutions that are more flexible, affordable and widely supported than those based on proprietary RISC and mainframe architectures.
Accelerating business needs The pace of business is accelerating around the globe, as leading companies in compute intensive industries, such as financial trading, manufacturing, and retail, move toward a real-time business model in which transactions and information sharing are near instantaneous. This transition is putting increasing demands on the performance, capacity and availability of enterprise databases and core business applications.
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features Itanium-based solutions offer an answer to this challenge by delivering mainframe class availability on a flexible and scalable architecture, specifically designed to support business-critical environments. The Intel® Itanium® 2 processor provides extensive reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features, and many of today's most respected system vendors are building on this foundation to deliver comprehensive solutions for demanding, data-intensive applications.
Itanium adoption on the rise The new Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9000 series~ is fueling growth by doubling performance and compute density when compared with previous generations, while simultaneously reducing power consumption. Over 12,000 applications# are available today on the Itanium processor based servers. Meanwhile, future processors and platforms are already in development, that will continue to take performance, scalability and availability to new levels. As the era of real-time business computing gains momentum, Itanium-based solutions can help businesses keep pace with rising requirements, so they can stay competitive in today's rapidly changing business environment.
“The Intel-based servers give us great performance and responsiveness and the reliability is well beyond 99.999 percent." Michael E. Smith, vice president and general manager of operations, Forbes.com* http://www.intel.com/business/itanium/mainframe_reliability.pdf http://www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/home
Desktop Roadmap Guidance This latest Intel® architecture building block roadmap update is intended to provide you recommendations for your Desktop deployments.
User Segment
Processor
Chipset
Processor No.
Clock Speed
Cache
FSB
Performance
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor with Intel® dual-core technology and Intel® 644
Intel® Q965 Express Chipset
E6000~ sequence
Upto 2.66 GHz
4 MB L2Cache / 2 MB L2 Cache
1066 MHz
Mainstream
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor with Intel® dual-core technology and Intel® 64
Intel® Q963 Express Chipset
E4000~ sequence
Upto 2.00 GHz
2 MB L2 Cache
800 MHz
Essential
Intel® Pentium® Dual Core processor with Intel® 64
Intel® 946GZ / 945G Express Chipset
E2000~ sequence
Upto 1.80 GHz
1 MB L2 Cache
800 MHz
Entry-Level
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with HT Technology6, Intel® 64 and Execute Disable Bit7
Intel® 945GC / 945GZ Express Chipset
600~ sequence
Upto 3.40 GHz
2 MB L2 Cache
800 MHz
Intel® Celeron® D processor with Intel® 64 and Execute Disable Bit
Intel® 945GC / 945 GZ Express Chipset
300~ sequence
Upto 3.60 GHz
512 KB L2 Cache/ 256 KB L2 Cache
533 MHz
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Mobile Roadmap Guidance This latest Intel® architecture building block roadmap update is intended to provide you recommendations for your Mobile deployments.
User Segment
Platform / Processor
Chipset
Wireless Solution
Processor No.
Clock Speed
Cache
FSB
Performance
Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Mobile Intel® PM / GM 965 Express Chipsets
Intel® PRO Wireless LAN 4965a/g/n (802.11a/g/n)
T7000~ sequence
Upto 2.40 GHz
Upto 4 MB L2 Cache
800 MHz
Mainstream
Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Mobile Intel® 945 GM / PM Express Chipsets with ICH7M
Intel® PRO Wireless LAN 3945a/b/g (802.11a/b/g)
T7000~ sequence
Upto 2.33 GHz
4 MB L2 Cache
667 MHz
Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Mobile Intel® 945 GM / PM Express Chipsets with ICH7M
Intel® PRO Wireless LAN 3945a/b/g (802.11a/b/g)
T5000~ sequence
Upto 1.83 GHz
2 MB L2 Cache
667 MHz
Entry-Level
Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology with Intel® Core™ Duo processor
Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipsets Family
Intel® PRO/Wireless LAN 2200b/g (802.11b/g) or better
T2000~ sequence
Upto 2.33 GHz
2 MB L2 Cache
667 MHz
Value
Intel® Celeron® M processor
Intel® 940 GML / 943 GML Express Chipset
Optional Wireless
400~ sequence
Upto 2.00 GHz
1 MB L2 Cache
533 MHz
Server Roadmap Guidance This latest Intel® architecture building block roadmap update is intended to provide you recommendations for your Server deployment.
Server Segment
Processor
Clock Speed
Cache
FSB
High-end / Enterprise MP
Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9050 - MP
1.60 GHz
24 MB L3 Cache
400 / 533 MHz
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7150N - MP
3.50 GHz
16 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 Cache
667 MHz
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7140N - MP
3.33 GHz
16 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 Cache
667 MHz
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7140M - MP
3.40 GHz
16 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 Cache
800 MHz
Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9030 - MP
1.60 GHz
8 MB L3 Cache
400 / 533 MHz
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7120N/M - MP
3.00 GHz
4 MB L3 Cache, 2x1 MB L2 Cache
667 / 800 MHz
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor E5345 - DP
2.33 GHz
8 MB L2‡ Cache
1333 MHz
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5160 - DP
3.00 GHz
4 MB L2 Cache
1333 MHz
Value DP
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5110 - DP
1.60 GHz
4 MB L2 cache
1066 MHz
Performance UP
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X3210 - UP
2.13 GHz
8 MB L2‡ Cache
1066 MHz
Entry-level UP
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3060 - UP
2.40 GHz
4 MB L2 cache
1066 MHz
Mid-range MP
Performance DP
Client and server table - OEMs and other brands
OEM
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor based Desktop PCs
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with HT Technology6 600 sequence based Desktop PCs
Intel® Centrino® Duo and Intel® Centrino® processor technology based Mobile PCs
Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor based Servers
Veriton* Series, Acer* Power Series, Aspire Series
Veriton* Series, Acer* Power Series, Aspire Series
Travelmate 3012WTMi, 3270 Series, 4200 Series, 6400 series, Aspire 5580 series, 5570 Series
Altos* G540 (Tower), G330, R720 Rack 2U, R520 Rack 1U,
Optiplex* 745, 390MT Precision, 390 Workstation, Optiplex 320
Optiplex* 210L, 320, Precision 390 WS – P631, Optiplex 745
Latitude D820, D620, D520, D420, Precision M65 & M90 Mobile Workstations
PowerEdge* 6800, 2900, 2800 Precision 490 & 690 and Precision 490
Infiniti* Tru* BL 1235, BL 1230, BL 1240
Infiniti* Pro* BL 1235, 1240, 1230, 1205, 4115, 1090
HCL Infiniti* Powerlite* 6010, 6010G1, 6020, 9100TR, 9100HL, 9100 NG
HCL Infiniti* Global line* 2700 ST, 2700 SO, 2700 AO
Infiniti* Global line* 4800MA (4), 5080, 6080, 5085 and 6085(8), 5160, 6160 (16), 6320 (32)
HP Compaq* Business Desktop dc7700, dc5700, dx7380, dx2700
HP Compaq* Business Desktop d290, dx2280, dx2300
HP Compaq* Business Notebook Nx 6320, Nx6310, Nx7400, Nx7300, Nc6400, Nw8440, Nc8430, Nx8420, Nw9440, Nx9420, Nc2400, tc4400, Nc4400
Proliant* DL360G5, DL380G5, DL 140G3, ML150G3, ML350G5, ML370G5, BL20PG4, BL460C, BL480C
Integrity* rx1620, rx2620, rx4640, rx7640, rx8640, Integrity* Superdome* (32 / 64 / 128)
Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor / Intel® Itanium® 2 processor based Servers
xSeries 3400, 3500, x3950, x3550, x3650, Blade Centre HS20, HS21 ThinkCenter* M55P, M55 USFF, M55 SFF, M55E, A55
ThinkCenter* M55E and A55, E50 series, Lenovo 3000 series
ThinkPad* X60, T60, R 60, Z61M, Z61T, Lenovo 3000 series
PRODiiGY* G965, 946GZ, GZIS
PRODiiGY* 915GV, GGC2, P4M890, 945G, 945GZ
Privilege* 1000, 1010
Wipro SuperGenius* 321XX, 30106, 153XX, 154XX
Wipro SuperGenius* 604, 218xx, 111xx, 154xx
Wipro Notebook 7100, 7110, 7130, 7140, 7150, 7200, 7230
Zenith* Corporate PC
7D Zenith* PC
Zenith* Director*, Zenith* Presidio-Vu*
SiiRUS* Classic DP XXIX, XXX SiiRUS Compact UP XXIII
SiiRUS* Classic DP XIV, SiiRUS* Enterprise QP II
Altix XE 210, Altix XE 240, XE 1200 (Cluster)
Altix 450, Altix 4700, Altix 350
Wipro NetBlade* Z 2701, Wipro NetPower* Z 2502, Z1502, Z 2504, Wipro NetPower Z 2108 (1U Rack), Z 2204 (2U Rack)
Wipro NetPower* 10220, 10440
Intel® processor reference chart - Desktop PCs Intel® Brand or Processor Family
Processor Number
Clock Speed (GHz)
Front Side Bus (MHz)
Intel® Technologies Cache
Dual-Core Intel® VT5
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6000 sequence~ and E4000 sequence~ 4 MB L2 E6700 2.66 1066 P 4 MB L2 E6600 2.40 1066 P 4 MB L2 E6420 2.13 1066 P 2 MB L2 E6400 2.13 1066 P 4 MB L2 E6320 1.86 1066 P 2 MB L2 E6300 1.86 1066 P 2 MB L2 E4400 2.00 800 P 2 MB L2 E4300 1.80 800 P
P P P P P P
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology8
Intel® 644
Execute 7 Disable Bit
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P P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P P
P P
P P
P P
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P P P
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor E2000 sequence
E2160 E2140
1.80 1.60
800 800
1 MB L2 1 MB L2
P P
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 600 sequence
651 641 630
3.40 3.20 3.00
800 800 800
2 MB L2 2 MB L2 2 MB L2
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 500 sequence 800 541 3.20 3.00 800 531
1 MB L2 1 MB L2
P P
P P
Intel® Celeron® D processor 300 sequence 533 365 3.60 3.46 533 360 356 3.33 533
512 KB L2 512 KB L2 512 KB L2
P P P
P P P
Intel® processor reference chart - Mobile PCs Intel® Brand or Processor Family
Processor Number
Clock Speed (GHz)
Front Side Bus (MHz)
Intel® Technologies Cache
Dual-Core
Intel® VT
5
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® 8 Technology
Intel® 64
P P P P P P P P
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Execute Disable Bit7
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T7000 and T5000 sequence~ 4 MB L2 T7700 2.40 800 4 MB L2 T7600 2.33 667 4 MB L2 T7500 2.20 800 4 MB L2 T7400 2.16 667 4 MB L2 T7300 2.00 800 2 MB L2 T7100 1.80 800 2 MB L2 T5600 1.83 667 2 MB L2 T5500 1.66 667
P P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P P
Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2000 and L2000 sequence 2 MB L2 T2700 2.33 667 2 MB L2 T2600 2.16 667 2 MB L2 T2500 2.00 667 2 MB L2 T2400 1.83 667 2 MB L2 T2300 1.66 667 2 MB L2 T2300E 1.66 667
P P P P P P
P P P P P
P P P P P P
P P P P P
P P
P P
Intel® Core™ Solo processor T1000 and U1000 sequence 2 MB L2 T1400 1.83 667 2 MB L2 T1300 1.66 667 Intel® Celeron® M processor 400 sequence 533 450 2.00 533 440 1.86 1.73 533 430 533 420 1.60
1 MB L2 1 MB L2 1 MB L2 1 MB L2
P P P P P P P P
P P P P
Intel® processor reference chart - Servers Intel® Brand or Processor Family
Processor Number
Clock Speed (GHz)
Front Side Bus (MHz)
Intel® Technologies Cache
Dual-Core Intel® Itanium®2 processor 9000 sequence~ 24 MB L3 9050 1.60 400/533 18 MB L3 9040 1.60 400/533 8 MB L3 9030 1.60 400/533 12 MB L3 9020 400/533 1.42 Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 7100 sequence 16 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7150N 3.50 667 16 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7140M 3.40 800 16 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 3.33 7140N 667 8 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7130M 800 3.20 8 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7130N 3.16 667 4 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7120M 3.00 800 4 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7120N 3.00 667 4 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7110M 800 2.60 4 MB L3, 2x1 MB L2 7110N 2.50 667 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 sequence ‡ 8 MB L2 X5355 2.66 1333 ‡ 8 MB L2 E5345 2.33 1333 E5335 2.00 1333 8 MB L2‡ 8 MB L2‡ E5320 1066 1.86 8 MB L2‡ 1066 L5320 1.86 ‡ 8 MB L2 E5310 1.60 1066 ‡ 8 MB L2 1066 L5310 1.60 Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 sequence 4 MB L2 1333 5160 3.00 1333 4 MB L2 5150 2.66 1333 4 MB L2 5148LV 2.33 1333 4 MB L2 5140 2.33 1333 4 MB L2 5130 2.00 4 MB L2 5120 1.86 1066 4 MB L2 5110 1.60 1066 Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence 3.73 2x2 MB L2 5080 1066 2x2 MB L2 5060 3.20 1066 2x2 MB L2 5050 3.00 667 2x2 MB L2 5030 2.67 667 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 sequence ‡ 8 MB L2 X3220 2.40 1066 8 MB L2‡ X3210 2.13 1066 Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 sequence 4 MB L2 3070 2.66 1066 4 MB L2 3060 2.40 1066 2 MB L2 3050 2.13 1066 2 MB L2 3040 1.86 1066
Dual-Core
Quad-Core
Power
System Type
Intel® 644
Execute 7 Disable Bit
P P P P
104W 104W 104W 104W
MP MP MP MP
P P P P
P P P P P P P P P
150W 150W 150W 150W 150W 95W 95W 95W 95W
MP MP MP MP MP MP MP MP MP
P P P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P P P
120W 80W 80W 80W 50W 80W 50W
DP DP DP DP DP DP DP
P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P
80W 65W 40W 65W 65W 65W 65W
DP DP DP DP DP DP DP
P P P P P P P
P P P P P P P
P P P P
130W 130W 95W 95W
DP DP DP DP
P P P P
P P P P
105W 105W
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P P
P P
65W 65W 65W 65W
UP UP UP UP
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Up to 2x greater range and up to 5x better performance with optional Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N technology enabled by 2x3 Draft N implementations with 2 spatial streams. Actual results may vary based on your specific hardware, connection rate, site conditions, and software configurations. See www.intel.com/performance/mobile/wireless/index.htm for more information. Also requires a Connect with Intel® Centrino® processor technology certified wireless n access point. Wireless n access points without the Connect with Intel Centrino processor technology identifier may require additional firmware for increased performance results. Check with your PC and access point manufacturer for details.
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Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number for details.
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Processors employ Intel® advanced Smart Cache (shared cache). Features 4MB Smart Cache per core pair. Model numbers and configurations of OEMs are subject to change without notice and may be available at their sole discretion
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Intel® Active Management Technology requires the platform to have an Intel® AMT-enabled chipset, network hardware and software, as well as connection with a power source and a corporate network connection. With regards to notebooks, Intel AMT may not be available or certain capabilities may be limited over a host OS-based VPN or when connecting wirelessly, on battery power, sleeping, hibernating or powered off. For more information, see http://www.intel.com/technology/manage/iamt.
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Tests run on customer reference boards and preproduction latest generation Intel® Centrino® processor technology with optional Intel® Turbo Memory enabled against like systems without Intel® Turbo Memory. Results may vary based on hardware, software and overall system configuration. All tests and ratings reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. All testing was done on Microsoft* Vista* Ultimate (build 6000). Application load and runtime acceleration depend on Vista*’s preference to pre-load those applications into the Microsoft* ReadyBoost* cache. See http://www.intel.com/performance/mobile/benchmarks.htm for more information.
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System performance, battery life, high-definition quality and functionality, and wireless performance and functionality will vary depending on your specific operating system, hardware and software configurations. References to enhanced performance including wireless as measured by SYSmark* 2004 SE, PCMark*05, 3DMark*05, 3DMark*06, SPEC* CPU2000* and Adjacent Channel Interference (ACI)* refer to comparisons with previous generation Intel® Centrino® mobile technology platforms. References to improved battery life as measured by MobileMark* 2005, if applicable, refer to previous generation Intel Centrino mobile technology platforms. Wireless connectivity and some features may require you to purchase additional software, services or external hardware. Availability of public wireless LAN access points is limited, wireless functionality may vary by country and some hotspots may not support Linux-based Intel Centrino mobile technology systems. See http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/index.htm for more information. SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECrate, SPECweb, SPECjbb are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See: http://www.spec.org for more information on the benchmarks.
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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.
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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.
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Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) requires a computer system with an Intel® processor supporting HT Technology and an HT Technology enabled chipset, BIOS and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. See www.intel.com/products/ht/hyperthreading_more.htm for more information including details on which processors support HT Technology.
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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.
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Certain boxed Intel desktop processors have support for Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology. See the Processor Spec Finder at http://processorfinder.intel.com or contact your Intel representative for more information.
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