An actual photograph of a Core 2 Duo (Conroe) die. The right half shows what commonly perceived as CPU logic. The (darker) left half of the die shows the (4 MB) L2 cache. The core is about 143 mm2 in size and contains 291 million transistors - which bring
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An actual photograph of a Core 2 Duo (Conroe) die. The right half shows what commonly perceived as CPU logic. The (darker) left half of the die shows the (4 MB) L2 cache. The core is about 143 mm2 in size and contains 291 million transistors - which bring