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: Uses Hyper-Threading to allow each core to process two instruction streams simultaneously.

: Automatically increases the clock speed up to 3.6 GHz based on the workload and thermal headroom. Modern Considerations : Uses Hyper-Threading to allow each core to

: A "Tick" in Intel’s roadmap that brought more cores and 12MB of L3 cache while staying within the same 130W power envelope as previous quad-core chips. : Uses Hyper-Threading to allow each core to

: Introduced 12 new instructions to specifically speed up encryption and decryption tasks. : Uses Hyper-Threading to allow each core to

The was a flagship desktop processor released in early 2010. It was famously the first consumer processor to feature six physical cores and 12 threads .