The

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

Socket P (mPGA478MN) is the mobile

processor socket In computer hardware, a CPU socket or CPU slot contains one or more mechanical components providing mechanical and electrical connections between a microprocessor and a printed circuit board (PCB). This allows for placing and replacing the cen ...

replacement for

Core microarchitecture The Intel Core microarchitecture (provisionally referred to as Next Generation Micro-architecture, and developed as Merom) is a multi-core processor microarchitecture launched by Intel in mid-2006. It is a major evolution over the Yonah, the p ...

chips such as

Core 2 Duo Intel Core is a line of streamlined midrange consumer, workstation and enthusiast computer central processing units (CPUs) marketed by Intel, Intel Corporation. These processors displaced the existing mid- to high-end Pentium processors at the ...

. It launched on May 9, 2007, as part of the

Santa Rosa platform Centrino is a brand name of Intel Corporation which represents its Wi-Fi and WiMAX wireless computer networking adapters. Previously the same brand name was used by the company as a platform-marketing initiative. The change of the meaning of the ...

with the Merom and Penryn processors.

Technical specifications

Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 Dual-Core Prozessor (8600505511)

The front-side bus (FSB) of CPUs that install in Socket P can run at 400, 533, 667, 800, or 1066

MT/s In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common secondary terms gigatransfers per second (abbreviated as GT/s) and megatransfers per second (MT/s) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that ...

. By adapting the multiplier the frequency of the CPU can throttle up or down to save power, given that all Socket P CPUs support

EIST Enhanced SpeedStep is a series of dynamic frequency scaling technologies (codenamed Geyserville and including SpeedStep, SpeedStep II, and SpeedStep III) built into some Intel microprocessors that allow the clock speed of the processor to be dynami ...

, except for Celeron that do not support

. Socket P has 478 pins, but is not electrically pin-compatible with

Socket M Socket M (mPGA478MT) is a CPU interface introduced by Intel in 2006 for the Intel Core line of mobile processors. Technical specifications Socket M is used in all Intel Core products, as well as the Core-derived Dual-Core Xeon codenamed Sossam ...

Socket 478 Socket 478, also known as mPGA478 or mPGA478B, is a 478-contact CPU socket used for Intel's Pentium 4 and Celeron series CPUs. Socket 478 was launched in August 2001 in advance of the Northwood core to compete with AMD's 462-pin Socket A and th ...

. Socket P is also known as a 478-pin Micro FCPGA or μFCPGA-478. On the plastic grid is printed mPGA478MN.

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20060714182555/http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2835 *https://web.archive.org/web/20060709190425/http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3180 *http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2808&p=4

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Technical specifications

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