Other technical features of the Core i5 2nd Gen processors was the DMI bus that had the capacity of 5GB/s per direction, Direct 10.1, AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) instruction set, support of full HD streaming, HD video and stereoscopic content for TV viewing, SSE4.2 instruction set, AES-NIS instruction set, Intel EM64T technology, Intel Turbo Boost Technology, Enhanced SpeedStep Technology and Virtualisation. In simple words it means that the size of the processor was reduced which enabled all the parts of the processor could benefit from each other. The distinguishing factor of this new family of processors was that these were the first to integrate the processor and the memory controller graphics on the same die. This new range of processors came with quad core technology and was based on Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.
In January 2011, Intel launched the Core i5 2nd Gen processors.