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The Empire Strikes Back. After years of losing to AMD's Athlon 64, Intel abandoned the high-frequency NetBurst architecture and released the Core 2 Duo. The E6600 was the sweet spot—fast, overclockable, and utterly dominant.
It ended AMD's golden era instantly. It was so efficient that it could do more work at 2.4 GHz than a Pentium 4 could do at 3.6 GHz. It re-established Intel as the undisputed king of performance for the next decade.
