Arrandale is the code name for a family of mobile

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processors, sold as mobile

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i3, i5 and i7 as well as Celeron and Pentium. It is closely related to the desktop Clarkdale processor; both use dual-core dies based on the '' Westmere''

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of the Nehalem microarchitecture, and have integrated Graphics as well as

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and

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links. Arrandale is the successor of the 45 nm Core-microarchitecture-based Penryn processor that is used in many of the mobile

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and

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processors. While Penryn typically used both a north bridge and a south bridge, Arrandale already contains the major northbridge components, which are the memory controller, PCI Express bus for external graphics,

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, and the DMI interface, making it possible to build more compact systems. The Arrandale processor package contains two dies: the 32 nm processor die with the I/O connections, and the 45 nm Intel HD Graphics ( Ironlake) controller and integrated memory controller die. Physical separation of the processor die and memory controller die resulted in increased memory latency. Arrandale was released on 7 January 2010, during CES 2010. The code name Arrandale is named after its namesake place in

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Brand names

Arrandale processors were sold under the

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, Intel Core i5 and

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brand names, with only the Core i7 models using the full L3 cache and all features. Processors ending in E instead of M are embedded versions with support for PCIe bifurcation and

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, while the regular mobile versions only support a single PCIe port and non-ECC memory. The Celeron versions of Arrandale have the smallest L3 cache of just 2 MB.

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