14 DAY TRIAL // Intel, being the world's greatest supplier of central processing units, is always working on some new CPU or set of chips, so it is not that great a surprise to hear that a pair of them are set to launch next week.
When it comes to CPUs, their makers have to make sure they are of a great performance, size and socket support variety.
This is because there are many different computers and electronics that use such chips, with unequal performance and power requirements.
It is for this reason that there are so many series of CPUs, like Celeron, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, the upcoming Cloverview (covered here) etc.
Turns out that the Celeron line is going to be updated soon, in about a week or so, according to most recent reports on the subject.
One of them, dubbed Celeron 787, is a single-core model that will replace the Celeron 763 on the low budget front.
As far as specifications go, it features a clock frequency of 1.3 GHz, as well as an L3 cache memory of 1 MB.
Virtualization support is also present, as is the obligatory integrated graphics core, its maximum turbo frequency being of 950 MHz (the base clock is 350 MHz).
Meanwhile, the Celeron 857 is a dual-core running at 1.2 GHz and designed with an L3 cache memory of 2 MB instead of just one.
Furthermore, though the base speed of the built-in GPU is identical to the one above, the maximum one is higher (1 GHz).
Both Celeron line members use the BGA package and are of the ULV variety, so they consume very little power, in this case 17W.
Finally, they support DDR3-1333 memory and will launch in the third quarter of 2011, meaning that their arrival could be as early as next week.