Three New Intel ULV CPUs for Laptops Inbound

Whether or not Intel really is seeing pressure on the CPU market, it seems that the outfit is going along with its product plans as usual, in this case preparing to deliver three new, low-power CPUs.

That Intel was going to provide more processors of the Sandy Bridge variety isn't really any sort of surprise.

In fact, not a week seems to ever go by without some information about a processor or another leaking over to the web.

Now, the folks over at CPU World report that the Santa Clara, California-based CPU developer has three ULV models in store, for mobile PCs.

Two of them will belong to the Core i7 family, while the third, and least mighty, will be of the Core i5 variety.

For those that want specifics, the Core i5 central processing unit (Core i5-2557M) has two cores, four threads, 3 MB of L3 cache and a base frequency of 1.7 GHz, with Turbo Boost capable of driving it up to 2.7 GHz.

The Core i7-2637M is also a dual-core processor with four threads and a base clock of 1.7 GHz, but the Turbo Boost specification is 2.8 GHz and the L3 cache memory of 4 MB.

Last but not least, the Core i7-2677M shares most of the specs with the i7-2637, save for the clocks of 1.8 GHz and 2.9 GHz, respectively.

All three have integrated graphics clocked at 350 MHz (1.2 GHz in Turbo mode) and work on 17 Watts of power.

These three chips, whenever they happen to debut, will double the number of Intel ULV (ultra low-voltage) processors that the top-tier CPU maker has. Unfortunately, their prices are still unknown.

It is quite possible that these processors will be employed by Apple in the latest MacBook Air laptops, provided concerns about Intel possibly losing the line turn out to be overblown.