Intel launched its first Core 2 Duo processors on July 27, 2006. The Conroe architecture replaced NetBurst and restored Intel’s performance lead over AMD.
  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 天前

    athlon was booming and netburst was dead. the core2 is what stopped amd’s momentum two decades ago… right when they were on the verge of overtaking intel on the desktop.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 天前

    What a huge relief it was when they dumped NetBurst.

    Core 2 Duo E6600 was my first Intel processor since 1994 and I stuck with them until Ryzen got good.

    • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
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      2 天前

      I went with a Q6600. Huge upgrade from my Athlon XP 2500+ despite initially getting criticised for buying a quad core. Many were convinced multi threaded software support would take longer to happen than it did in reality. Q6600 ended up having long legs, especially overclocked.