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In January 2010, the Intel Core i3-540, a two-core desktop processor. It is a member of the Core i3 series and has Socket 1156 and the Clarkdale architecture. Intel Hyper-Threading allows for an effective doubling of the core count, resulting in 4 threads. The Core i3-540 processor runs at 3.066 GHz and has 4 MB of L3 cache. 382 million transistors are being used by Intel in the 32 nm manufacturing process to create the Core i3-540.