14 DAY TRIAL // In the first quarter of the next year Intel plans to release a series of four new mobile Celeron processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture that will offer some minor improvements in clock speeds and/or slightly faster graphics.
The fastest of the chips Intel plans to introduce is the Celeron B815 which will come running at a frequency of 1.6GHz.
As Tech Report has observed, the specifications of this CPU look extremely similar with those of the Celeron B810 is meant to replace, but the B815 will bring a slightly faster graphics core as this will come clocked at 1050MHz instead of 950MHz.
In addition to the B810, the Celeron B-Series will also get the B720 that mimics in almost every details the B710 it's meant to replace although its single computing core will be clocked at 1.7GHz.
Both of these chips have a TDP of 35W, but Intel will also update its 17W Celeron CPU portfolio with the Celeron 797 and 867.
The simplest of these two processors, the Celeron 797 will sport a single computing core operating at just 1.4GHz, while its older brother loses 100MHz but gains an additional core when compared to its sibling.
When it will arrive, pricing for the Celeron 867 will be set at $134, which is the current price of Intel's Celeron ULV 857.
As it’s the case with all the other Sandy Bridge-based Celeron processors launched by Intel, the four chips detailed above support a basic set of features, such as Intel 64 and virtualization, while more advanced technologies like Turbo Boost or HyperThreading were disabled.
No firm release date was provided, but we shouldn't wait that much time after we get into 2012 for these CPUs to be released.