They may help in the fulfillment of the company's ultrabook sales goal

Jun 15, 2012 08:04 GMT  ·  By

Intel is almost ready to finally release its cheapest Ivy Bridge-series central processing units.

Based on the findings of Focus Taiwan, the Santa Clara, California-based company will ship the Core i3 CPUs starting on June 24, 2012.

That's less than ten days from now, which means that truly cheap ultrabooks could finally become a reality. Well, compared to the likes of Acer's Aspire S5 anyway.

It remains to be seen if the low-cost Core i3 units manage to encourage ultrabook sales enough for them to become as prominent as Intel hopes.

For those unaware, Chipzilla wants them to account for 40% of all consumer notebook sales by the end of the year. The dual-core, low-power chips will certainly assist, but we can't help but feel Intel is being a bit too optimistic about this.