Intel Core

The Core brand refers to intel's 32-bit mobile dual core that derived from the processors. The processor family used a more advanced version of the Intel p6. It emerged in parallel with the (Intel P68) microarchitecture of the pentium4 brand, and was a precursor of the 64k bit of Core 2 branded CPUs. The Core brand comprised two branches: the Duo (dual-core) and Solo (Duo with one disabled core, which replaced the Pentium M brand of single-core mobile processor).

The Core brand was launched on jan 5 2k6 by the release - Intel's first dual core mobile (low-power) processor. Its dual-core layout closely resembled two interconnected CPUs packaged as a single (piece) silicon chip . Hence, the 32-bit microarchitecture of Core branded CPUs - contrary to its name - had more in common with Pentium M branded CPUs than with the subsequent CPUs. Despite a major effort by intel starting January 2006, some computers with the Yonah core continued to be marked as Pentium M.

The Core Duo is also famous for being the first Intel processor to ever be used in apple computers. Core Duo signified the beginning of Apple's shift to Intel processors across their entire line.

In 2007, intel began branding the Yonah core for mainstream mobile computers as Pentium dual core. These are not to be confused with the desktop CPUs also branded as Pentium Dual-Core.

September 2006 and January 4, 2008 mark a discontinuation of many Core branded CPUs.