It’s hard to remember now, but back then the cost difference between a single-core and dual-core system was enormous. The Core 2 Duo wasn’t Intel’s first dual-core - that was Smithfield, the Prescott P4 chip that debuted the previous year - but it was the first CPU from Intel to show the promise of the dual-core approach that AMD had already debuted. It gave Intel a serious response to AMD’s Athlon 64 family, which had spent nearly three years making hash of the Pentium 4 - and it set the stage for Intel’s ultimate dominance of the x86 CPU market. The company’s then-new 65nm Conroe core set new records for efficiency and high performance. Ten years ago today, Intel launched the Core 2 Duo.
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