Photos: Intel Core 2 Duo launch

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  • Core 2 Duo processor

    Core 2 Duo processor

    Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini stood on stage at the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., to formally launch the company's most important product in a decade, the Core 2 Duo processor.

    Otellini holds up the Core 2 Duo processor, which was built with Intel's 65-nanometer manufacturing technology. It has 291 million transistors packed into an area smaller than the fingernail on Otellini's little finger, he said.

    Caption by: Andy Smith

  • Velocity Micro PCs

    Velocity Micro PCs

    Velocity Micro's PCs are among the first to be available with the new Core Extreme and Core 2 Duo processors through Best Buy's retail stores.

    Caption by: Andy Smith

  • Falcon Northwest

    Falcon Northwest

    Intel demonstrated the new processors running on this fiery blue desktop PC from boutique gaming PC vendor Falcon Northwest.

    Caption by: Andy Smith

  • Voodoo PC

    Voodoo PC

    Dozens of systems were available for demonstrations following Otellini's speech, including this number from Voodoo PC. Some PCs based on the Core Extreme processor are available immediately, while less expensive ones will start to trickle out over the next several weeks.

    Caption by: Andy Smith

  • Alienware

    Alienware

    Dell's new subsidiary, Alienware, showed off a new chassis design for a Core Extreme PC that has a hinged cover for its media card reader and DVD drive.

    Caption by: Andy Smith

  • Notebooks

    Notebooks

    Intel and its partners were also showing off preproduction notebooks based on Merom, the notebook version of the Core 2 Duo. New notebooks will start to appear toward the end of August, said Dadi Perlmutter, the new solo head of Intel's Mobility Group, in an interview.

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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Core 2 Duo processor

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini stood on stage at the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., to formally launch the company's most important product in a decade, the Core 2 Duo processor.

Otellini holds up the Core 2 Duo processor, which was built with Intel's 65-nanometer manufacturing technology. It has 291 million transistors packed into an area smaller than the fingernail on Otellini's little finger, he said.

Caption by: Andy Smith

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