Some Intel Chips Get Cheaper as New Ones Appear

That Intel was going to release new CPUs this month is something that leaks and reports made clear quite a while ago, and it looks like whatever new arrivals are showing up aren't going to shake things up overmuch.

Intel has begun updating its product line with new Sandy Bridge central processing units, both for the desktop and the notebook field.

Granted, due to how the major processors on each segment of the consumer base (low-end, mainstream and high-end) were made official with fanfare already, this leaves only the task of filling in the gaps.

In other words, the new chips aren't overly outstanding, although they do extend the performance and price variety.

For notebooks, the Santa Clara, California-based company has designed two quad-core models, as well as three quad-core units, all of them from the Core i7 series, except for the two-core Celeron B840. Their prices are of $1,096 to as little as $86.

Meanwhile, the desktop range is welcoming a faster mid-range Core i5 ($177), three new Core i3 units and three Pentium series chips.

Furthermore, four Celeron processors have appeared, with 1 or two cores and prices of $27 to $52 (the Core i3 units go between $127 and $138, for comparison).

Finally, the central processing units that experienced price drops are the Core i5 and Core i7 models that have a TDP (thermal design power) of 65W and 45/35W (S and T, respectively). Then again, the drops are of just two to six percent, so nothing monumentally shocking there.

Those who want to know exactly what each chip does and how much they sell for need only check Intel's price list.

Users who want to know more about Intel's activities might want to read about how it decided to slow down factory advancement, or about other chips, like the Atom Cedar Trail (benchmarked), among other things.