The Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E6000 series are based on the Enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. The Intel Enhanced Core™ microarchitecture combines the performance of previous generation Desktop products with the power efficiencies of a low-power microarchitecture to enable smaller, quieter systems. The Intel Pentium dual-core processor E6000 series are 64-bit processors that maintain compatibility with IA-32 software.

The processors use Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA8) package technology, and plugs into a 775-land surface mount, Land Grid Array (LGA) socket, referred to as the LGA775 socket.

The processors are based on 45 nm process technology. The processors feature the Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, a shared multi-core optimized cache that significantly reduces latency to frequently used data. The processors feature an 800 MHz or 1066 MHz front side bus (FSB) and 2 MB of L2 cache.

The processors support all the existing Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3), and Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3 (SSSE3). The processors support several Advanced Technologies: Execute Disable Bit, Intel® 64 architecture, and Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology. The Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E6000 series supports Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT).

The processor's front side bus (FSB) use a split-transaction, deferred reply protocol. The FSB uses Source-Synchronous Transfer of address and data to improve performance by transferring data four times per bus clock (4X data transfer rate). Along with the 4X data bus, the address bus can deliver addresses two times per bus clock and is referred to as a "double-clocked" or 2X address bus. Working together, the 4X data bus and 2X address bus provide a data bus bandwidth of up to 8.5 GB/s.

Features:

Intel® 64 Architecture

An enhancement to the Intel IA-32 architecture, allowing the processor to execute operating systems and applications written to take advantage of the Intel 64 architecture.

Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® Technology

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology allows trade-offs to be made between performance and power consumptions, based on processor utilization. This may lower average power consumption (in conjunction with OS support)

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)

A set of hardware enhancements to Intel server and client platforms that can improve virtualization solutions. Intel VT provides a foundation for widely-deployed virtualization solutions and enables more robust hardware assisted virtualization solutions.

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