As multitasking with multiple complex software applications becomes more commonplace, yesterday’s PCs are increasingly struggling to keep up with computing demands. To better handle these increased workloads, new Intel® Core™2 Duo desktop processors deliver revolutionary processor performance and energy efficiency for business and consumer users, earning them the distinction as the world’s best dual-core processors.1 As the processor engine underlying both Intel Viiv™ technology–based consumer platforms and Intel vPro™ technology–enabled business platforms, Intel Core 2 Duo processors enhance the user experience across a broad spectrum of computing environments. These groundbreaking processors deliver exceptional performance and headroom for performance-intensive tasks such as high-definition playback, multimedia editing, video conferencing, multithreaded applications, and multitasking—all with outstanding energy efficiency. “The Core™2 Duo processors are simply the best processors in the world. Not since Intel introduced the Pentium® processor has the industry seen the heart of the computer reinvented like this.” —Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO And for gamers looking for a leading-edge performance experience, the new Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor helps render complex physics with liquid animation, delivering high-definition media experiences while helping to reduce the slowdown and frame-dropping that can remove players from immersive-gaming experiences. These innovative new desktop processors are based on the state-of-the-art Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the new foundation for Intel® architecture–based desktop, mobile, and mainstream server multi-core processors. The Intel Core microarchitecture shows Intel’s continued excellence in innovation by delivering both greater energy efficiency and the compute capability required for the high-demand usage models now making their way across computing.