Intel‘s Core 2 Duo family is already known for its optimized power consumption, but Intel has now managed to tune the architecture even further. According to The Inquirer, Intel will soon launch a new revision of its Core 2 Duo series and the new L2 revision will cut the power consumption, during idle, to 12W, while current models consume 22W. A significant decrease and without a doubt a counter to AMD’s statement that its new Athlon 64 X2 processors based on the new 65nm process will have a power consumption at only 7.5W during idle. The affected Intel processors are to begin with only the Core 2 Duo models E6300 and E6400, the ones with 2MB L2 cache.
