The Intel® Core™ i5-3230M Processor utilizes Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, built on a 22nm process, featuring dual cores and four threads via Hyper-Threading. It has a base clock speed of 2.6 GHz, turbo-boosting to 3.2 GHz, with 3 MB Intel Smart Cache. The TDP is 35 watts, supporting DDR3 memory at 1600 MHz. Integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 offers DirectX 11 support. Advanced technologies include Intel Turbo Boost 2.0, Hyper-Threading, and virtualization (VT-x).