Built on the innovative Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the processors offered on the <%= strMarketingName %> system deliver multicore performance and breakthrough processor energy efficiency. With Intel Wide Dynamic Execution, Intel Smart Memory Access, Intel Advanced Smart Cache, and Intel Digital Media Boost, these processors are designed to do more in less time. Additional features to support enhanced security, virtualization, and 64-bit computing make these processors the most impressive processors developed for an increasingly multimedia-centered, high-definition world.
Processor Number
Code Name
Cache
Clock Speed
Front Side Bus
Dual Core
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology
Execute Disable Bit
Intel 64 Architecture
Intel Virtualization Technology
Intel Trusted Execution Technology
Intel® Core™2 Duo
E6550
Conroe
4 MB L2
2.33 GHz
1333 MHz
E4500
Conroe
2 MB L2
2.20 GHz
800 MHz
Pentium® Dual-Core
E2160
Conroe
1 MB
1.80 GHz
800 MHz
Features and Benefits
Dual-Core Processing
Two independent processor cores in one physical package run at the same frequency, and share up to 4 MB of L2 cache as well as up to a 1333 MHz 1 Front Side Bus, for truly parallel computing.
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution
Improves execution speed and efficiency, delivering more instructions per clock cycle. Each core can complete up to four full instructions simultaneously.
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 fast L2 cache in advance of execution. These functions keep the pipeline full, improving instruction throughput and performance.
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache
The shared L2 cache is dynamically allocated to each processor core based on workload. This efficient,
dual-core optimized implementation increases the probability that each core can access data from fast
L2 cache, significantly reducing latency to frequently used data and improving performance.
Intel® Advanced Digital
Accelerates the execution of Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE) instructions to significantly improve the 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 their speed of execution on a per
clock basis over previous generation processors.
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)
Intel® VT allows one hardware platform to function as multiple “virtual” platforms. For businesses, Intel VT offers improved manageability, limiting downtime and maintaining worker productivity by isolating
computing activities into separate partitions. IVT allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions. With virtualization, one computer system can work as multiple virtual systems. To run this feature, the following components must be capable of running VT:
Processor
Chipset
BIOS
Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
Application
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT
Intel® TXT provides hardware-based mechanisms to help protect against software-based attacks and help protect the confidentiality and integrity of data stored or created on the system. It does this by
enabling a trusted environment where applications can run within their own space, protected from all
other software on the system.
Intel® 64 Architecture
Enables the processor to access larger amounts of memory. With appropriate 64-bit supporting hardware
and software, platforms based on an Intel processor supporting Intel 64 architecture can allow the use of
extended virtual and physical memory.
Execute Disable Bit
Provides enhanced virus protection when deployed with a supported operating system. The Execute
Disable Bit 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.
