The Dual Core Pentium T 4200 -- officially known as the Intel Pentium Processor T4200 -- refers to one of the last processors produced under the Intel Pentium Dual Core brand, which marked the relegation of the Pentium to mid-range status and was produced from 2006 to 2009. Its manufacturer, semiconductor giant Intel, placed the T4200 under the brand's T4000 series.
Designation and Manufacture
Code-named Penyrn-3M, the Dual Core Pentium T 4200 is a dual-core mobile processor, which means that it has two cores to conduct its processing and is designed for use on laptop PCs. The cores are placed on a 107-square-millimeter die with 410 million processing transistors. Intel uses 45-nanometer lithographic semiconductor fabrication to make the computer chip.
Socket and Speeds
The Intel Pentium T4200 processor is fitted on a CPU socket called Pin Grid Array 478, or Socket P, which connects the chip with the computer's motherboard. It's named after its 478 holes, which accommodate the processor's pins, as well as the holes' neat grid-like layout. The T4200 has a 2-GHz clock speed, which is the rate at which it executes its basic tasks, and it has a data transfer rate of 800 million transfers per second.
Cache and Power
The Dual Core Pentium T 4200 has a Level 1 and Level 2 cache: two tiny built-in storage areas that it uses for faster access to the laptop's most frequently used data than its system memory. Intel lists the L2 cache as offering 1MB of storage space. Characteristic of mobile processors, the T4200 has a relatively low peak power consumption rate at 35 watts. Also, it operates within a 1.05- to 1.15-volt range.
Technologies
The Intel Pentium T4200 is based on 64-bit Core microarchitecture. This means that it has a 64-bit instruction set -- the Intel 64 -- to denote the maximum data size it can handle. It's also backward compatible with other instruction sets such as the original Pentium's MMX and the SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3 editions of Streaming SIMD Extensions. The T4200's enhancing technologies include SpeedStep for optimizing performance while preserving power and Execute Disable Bit for protection against viruses and malicious-code attacks.
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