Intel today officially launched the Intel Core Duo during a company event at its Santa Clara corporate headquarters.

The chipmaker's largest launch since the Pentium was an anti climactic event. Intel has been talking about the chips and their features for months. The official launch was like watching a cyclist cross the finish line on a downward mountain slope: crossing the summit was the real accomplishment.

28 Jul 2006

What remained were some product demonstrations and repetitions of benchmarks that we've all grown tired of hearing. The Core 2 Duo on average is 40 per cent faster and uses 40 per cent less power than its predecessor.

But if you're still interested, below you can watch a video where Sean Maloney, Intel's newly appointed marketing chief and its former head of the mobile unit, demonstrates some of the new processors.

Intel chief executive Paul Otelllini

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