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The NetBurst is a microarchitecture that succeded the P6 microarchitecture in the x86 family of CPUs made by Intel. The processors using the NetBurst architecture are the Willamette core, the Foster core, the Xeon CPUs and some Celeron CPUs. Some people refer to NetBurst as Intel P7 or Intel 80786 when comparing to previous chips. The NetBurst architecture basically includes features such as "Hyper Pipelined Technology" and "Rapid Execution Engine" which are firstly introduced in this particular microarchitecture.

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