It's one of those chips most likely to sell to the masses

Jan 8, 2014 07:41 GMT  ·  By

Intel may only make a fuss over its most powerful and most energy efficient central processing units, but the ones that really end up selling to the common man are units like the upcoming Core i5-4460S.

Well, maybe that's not quite true, since this unit will probably lack Hyper-Threading support, meaning that it won't turn those four cores into eight logical threads in Windows.

Then again, given how many Celeron and Pentium units sell despite being weaker than even single-threaded Core-series models, the Core i5-4460S might sell well indeed.

The CPU has a clock of 2.9 GHz, 100 MHz ahead of the Haswell Core i5-4440S which it is set to replace.

HD 4600 graphics should be found within, along with 6 MB of L3 cache. The TDP is of 65W.

The existence of the CPU was revealed by an ASRock motherboard support list.