Actually, the true original design from Intel Israel's team was the Pentium M (which itself was heavily based on both the Pentium III and the Pentium 4 branch prediction and FSB). The Core architecture wasn't a truly "ground up" design, it relied on the Pentium M design. It even inherited the Pentium M's weak FPU (which was redesigned for the Core 2).
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Actually, the true original design from Intel Israel's team was the Pentium M (which itself was heavily based on both the Pentium III and the Pentium 4 branch prediction and FSB). The Core architecture wasn't a truly "ground up" design, it relied on the Pentium M design. It even inherited the Pentium M's weak FPU (which was redesigned for the Core 2).