[ Thanks to Augustus for this link.
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“So now that you’ve got your shiny new dual-core processor, you
think you have the most power a single processor can offer. Well
Intel today has changed the rules again with the first quad-core
desktop processor. The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 brings
server-level processor performance to the desktop for all of your
compiling, gaming, and encoding needs. What’s new with this
processor and how did Intel pull off this leap? Read on for all the
details.“Intel’s latest creation, code-named Kentsfield, is actually not
much more than an upgraded reincarnation of Intel’s second
generation dual-core processor which paired two single core Pentium
4 cores in one package. As seen in the image below, what Intel has
done here is based on the same idea. It’s easy for Intel to take
two dual-core processors and attach them to one package and connect
them at the northbridge…”