14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's Haswell-based Celeron central processing units were only supposed to come out in the first quarter of 2014, so it could have been at any point between January 1 and the last day of March, but three have jumped the gun.
Considering that we didn't expect them to actually appear even at CES 2014 (Consumer Electronics Show), from January 7 to January 10, this is a big head start.
Anyway, the three chips that are already up for sale in the United States, via various online retailers, are the Celeron G1820, G1820T and G1830.
The Celeron G1820T is the low-power model, which means its TDP (thermal design power) is limited to 35W.
A dual-core with 2 threads (lacks Hyper-Threading support), it features a core frequency of 2.4 GHz, a L3 cache capacity of 2 MB, and HD graphics at 1050 MHz.
The second processor, Celeron G1820, is largely similar to its sibling, but has a clock of 2.7 GHz and a TDP of 54W.
Thirdly, the Celeron G1820 is the same as the G1820 but with 2.8 GHz core clock.
None of the three processors have support for Hyper Threading technology (so no doubling of the number of logical cores in Windows) and they also lack Turbo Boost technology (they can't automatically overclock if required, or overclock at all really).
The newcomers can be found for sale at prices of $48 to $56, or €34.79 - €48 to €40.59 - €56. Since they came out so soon, it's very probable that the rest of the Haswell-based Celeron line will come forth next month (January 2014), since it would be odd for them to take ages when these ones were so quick.
We'll be sure to keep you posted whenever each comes out, and informed as to what they all can do.