14 DAY TRIAL // Intel may not have wanted this new info on its previously hidden central processing units out in the open, but it made its way to the Internet anyway.
As reported here, in addition to all the big and small chips leaked so far, Intel is working on some other quad-core Ivy Bridge units.
These ones are aimed at OEMs, so they didn't make it onto Intel's official price list (and won't, since their kind usually doesn't), hence the mystery surrounding them.
That didn't stop people from snooping around, though, not with these being quad-core models with TDP (thermal design power) of 35W.
Intel hasn't confirmed any of this, of course, but signs do suggest these are the fabled 35W models.
The items have the names of Core i7-3615QM, Core i7-3612QM and Core i7-3610QM.
They are similar to the Core i7-2630QM – 2675QM Sandy Bridge range, the one that Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc., use for their laptops.
To sate onlookers' craving for numbers and other details, the new OEM CPUs have support for DDR3 memory at a frequency of 1,600 MHz, plus 6 MB of L2 cache.
Furthermore, they feature a graphics chip with a base clock of 650 MHz, like on the Core i7-3720QM.
The Core i7-3610QM chip has a base clock frequency of 2.1 GHz, which is, indeed, quite low for an IB unit (to put it lightly).
Even the Turbo Boost technology can't push performance to too high a level, but at least it gets to go beyond the 3 GHz threshold (3.1 GHz max).
Meanwhile, the Core i7-3615QM has a base clock of 2.3 GHz and a maximum Turbo Boost performance of 3.3 GHz.
All in all, the 3615QM is just about identical to the remaining unit in the series, Core i7-3610QM (unless the leak behind the details was wrongly typed).