14 DAY TRIAL // Shortly after the introduction of the first Sandy Bridge processors at the start of the year, rumors about Intel's plans to release a new Core i3-2105 CPU surfaced on the Web, and its existence seems now to be confirmed as reports suggest the chip is expected to arrive on May 22.
Just as we have reported previously, the Core i3-2105 is just a slightly improved version of the Core i3-2100 as it features the same dual-core design and 3.1GHz operating speed as its sibling, but pairs them with a faster HD 3000 integrated GPU.
Compared to the HD 2000, this doubles the number of execution units available to offer a significant jump in graphics performance.
In addition, the core also features 3MB of Level 3 cache memory, 512KB of L2 cache (2x156KB) and support for Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, which doubles the number of threads available to the CPU.
Its maximum power consumption is estimated at 35W and the chip is built using the same 32nm manufacturing process that is common to all Sandy Bridge CPUs.
The rest of the features list includes support for the AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions), AES and SIMD (up to SSE4) instructions sets, as well as for the Intel Quick Sync video transcoding technology.
As stated earlier, the Core i3-2105 is expected to become available on May 22 and its pricing should be set at $134 US, $17 more than the current i3-2100.
Previous leaks suggest that the Core i3-2105 will be accompanied by a Core i5-2405S CPU, but no details regarding the launch date of this chip are available at this time.
Apart from this CPU, the second quarter of 2011 will also mark the arrival of Intel's first Pentium processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture. (via HardwareLuxx)