Original 45nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

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Improvements in the Intel® Core™2 Processor Family Architecture and Microarchitecture

CONCLUSION

The improvements described in this paper should provide the reader a better understanding of the value architectural and microarchitectural enhancements have brought to the marketplace above and beyond a silicon process improvement. Each feature improves some aspect of performance so that in conjunction with the frequency improvement, the end user will realize real value in the product.

For a quantification of the performance improvement, please refer to the paper "Original 45nm Intel® Core™2 Processor Performance" in [1] .

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