Deep understanding of Core 2 processors

When each person buys a new computer, the first thing is to choose their own processor, they will spend their minds from the major computer sites to search for processor information, after the hardships, finally the processor stereotypes, a new computer's basic framework has surfaced. The importance of the processor in the computer is visible. Every revolution in processor technology is always fascinating, its development even related to the rise and fall of the entire computer sector, which plays an important role in the processor manufacturers, they make the processor technology and the market has undergone tremendous changes, standing in the forefront of the computer field, leading the development of the entire computer sector.

After years of development, now in the processor of this huge forest left only AMD and Intel these two tigers, as the saying goes, "one mountain does not allow two Tigers", these two tigers are constantly improving their processor technology, they want to use advanced processor technology and marketing strategy to squeeze each other out of the processor this huge forest, Exclusive processor this piece of "Fat pork". Just this year, both giants have reformed their products, introducing the latest architecture of processors, AMD with the AM2 architecture processor as the weapon, but the new architecture of the processor has not revolutionized the performance of the new processor is not improved; instead, Intel's newest core architecture processor, Whether from power consumption or performance, there has been a great improvement, this revolutionary technology reform has attracted global attention, the arrival of the core era is the industry's largest event this year.

Intel

In fact, before the advent of the core era, the Pentium era has been at the leading position of Intel, in this era has introduced a number of classic, such as: Pentium/Celeron series, the mobile domain Centrino series processor, etc., where the Pentium processor synonymous with the popular, When you ask some computer-literate people what kind of computer they want, they will definitely answer the Pentium computer, which can be seen, Pentium even become synonymous with computers. Beyond reproach, the Pentium series did give Intel a solid foundation in people's hearts, especially the following products, Pentium Series I, II, III processor and mobile domain Pentium M processor for Centrino platform, from a technical point of view, these classic products each of the architectural upgrades, has resulted in significant performance improvements that have made Intel occupy the majority of the processor market.

However, when the Pentium series developed into the Pentium 4 series, Intel's nightmare began. At first, the early days of the Pentium 4 series did give Intel a lot of cheer, but at the end of the day, the Pentium 4 series simply increased the frequency at the expense of power, while performance was not proportional to power consumption. At the same time, AMD's K7, K8 series because of architectural advantages, while maintaining low power consumption, can achieve high performance, this makes many Intel fans to the surrounding AMD.

Although the frequency of ascension at the initial stage can be achieved by sacrificing power, but at the later stage, due to the Pentium 4 series architecture of congenital defects, want to be the endless frequency of ascension becomes impossible to complete the task. As with the Pentium 4 series, there has been an explosion of news that alerted the global media: Barrett, Intel's former CEO, in a speech, "jokingly" apologized for the stranding of the 4G processor. From this point of view, Intel has already seen the Pentium 4 series of congenitally deficient, suggesting that the Pentium era will be exhausted, only a new architecture to restore Intel in the processor market failure situation.

Barrett kneel down to apologize

In fact, the demise of the Pentium era has been foreshadowing since the Pentium 4 launched by Intel in 2000. At that time Pentium 4 adopted NetBurst architecture, this architecture in order to achieve the increase in the frequency of the design of the pipeline, the real product and the previous generation of mainstream products based on the Latin core of the Pentium 3 comparison, the fundamental performance advantages, has been the industry controversy. It is also the failure of the Pentium 4 series to give its competitor amd an important respite, AMD quickly launched the performance of the K7, K8 series Red All over the world, so that it has been a huge development space. The Pentium 4 with the NetBurst architecture has not only lost its edge on the technical architecture, but its high power consumption problem has long been criticized by environmentalists. It is also from the Pentium 4 era, Intel's Pentium 3 era left a good architecture and reasonable power dissipation gradually began to disappear, making the Pentium so many years in the minds of people left the glorious image immediately disappeared without a trace.