Intel Core2 Duo processor to arrive in the third quarter

The Intel Core2 Duo processors for desktop and notebooks PCs respectively are based on the newly designed Intel Core microarchitecture and will include two processing cores — or brains — per chip, hence the "Duo" addition. Intel will also call its highest performing processor for enthusiast and gamers the Intel Core2 Extreme processor.

These ground-breaking processors will be built on Intel's advanced 65-nanometer design and manufacturing process technology that shrinks a processor's circuitry and transistors. This combination will deliver higher-performing, yet more energy-efficient processors that will spur more capable, stylish, silent and smaller mobile and desktop PCs while saving on electricity usage.