Intel Core Processor Guide 2011

Learn innovative Intel® technologies and essential information about second generation Intel processors to determine which ones best meet your organization’s needs. The Intel Processor Guide 2011 can help you make informed decisions when:

• Determining technology criterion ― Find out what your users really need.
• Evaluating PC performance ― Learn PC adaptability and new capabilities for IT and service providers.
• Evaluating PC total cost of ownership ― Consider all direct and indirect costs with the acquisition of PCs, continued maintenance and support.
• Matching the right processors to the PC requirements of various user categories ― Ensure that all processor-intensive applications meet your needs today and over a full three-year cycle.

Find out how to choose Intel processors for your desktop or laptop based on capabilities, benefits and technologies. The second generation Intel® Core™ processor family can help you deliver visibly smart performance, intelligent security and cost-saving manageability with key technologies:

• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 ― speeds up the processor when your workload requires extra performance
• Intelligent performance ― manages power and thermal headroom, allocating extra processing power to match the workload of applications that need it most, and identifies workload and processor specification levels that enable processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency
• Intelligent efficiency ― lowers energy costs on all PCs and extends battery life on laptops
• Multitask processing ― runs demanding applications simultaneously, reduces the burden of security applications that process in the background and provides headroom for future business growth
• Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard-New Instructions (AES-NI) ― speeds up data protection by accelerating encryption operations, extending new levels of protection to network traffic, personal data and the corporate IT infrastructure
• Built-in visuals ― enables you to better create, manage, share, and experience videos and photos
• Intel® Smart Cache ― improves performance and efficiency by increasing the probability that each execution core of a multicore processor can access data from a more efficient, higher-performance cache subsystem
• Intel® Smart Memory Access ― optimizes the use of the available data bandwidth from the memory subsystem and reduces the effective latency of memory accesses
• Integrated double data rate 3 (DDR3) memory controller ― provides dedicated memory to each second generation Intel Core processor