14 DAY TRIAL // After introducing a wide series of mainstream and high-performance Sandy Bridge processors earlier this year, Intel will now change its focus and plans to release a new range of entry-level Pentium and Celeron processor to cater to the needs of customers with lower budgets.
Two of these chips were recently disclosed by Biostar, when the company updated its motherboard CPU support list with two new parts.
These are called the Celeron G530T and Pentium G630T, and just as their name implies are low-power CPU models with a TDP of 35W.
Starting with the more powerful of the two processors, the Pentium G630T, this includes dual computing cores that are clocked at 2.3GHz and are paired with 3MB of Level 3 cache memory.
Like all the consumer space Sandy Bridge chips, the Pentium G630T sports integrated graphics, but no details about its operating frequency are available at this time.
Moving to the slower Celeron G530T chip, this also uses a dual-core design, but this time the processor is running at 2GHz while the amount of Level 3 cache memory will be limited to 2MB.
Most of the more advanced features brought by the Sandy Bridge architecture, such as Turbo Boost or HyperThreading, were disabled on Celeron and Pentium SKUs, apart from the Intel 64-bit instructions and virtualization support.
Both of these parts are compatible with LGA 1155 motherboards and CPU-World reports they will be launched in the third quarter of this year.
The first Pentium processors that were based on the Sandy Bridge architecture were released by Intel in the second half of May. In Q3 2011 these will be followed by other entry-level Celeron processors, but the company will also release a new series of faster Pentium chips.