14 DAY TRIAL // Intel has definitely left a strong mark on the IT industry through its pine Trail platform and its 2009 marketing performance, and will likely continue to do so with the introduction of its first 6-core CPU. However, these successes are only part of the company's efforts, as the Santa Clara chip maker is also gearing up to launch a new series of processors intended for the value market. Starting a few months from now, Intel's Celeron CPU lineup will see the addition of a dual-core model known as the Celeron P4500.
Intel's Celeron central processing units have been, are and will continue to be used in the creation of computing products aimed at the value market. Most such chips are paired with the Montevina platform, but the Santa Clara company, according to Fudzilla, will supposedly launch 32nm Arrandale Celerons, with the first being the aforementioned Celeron P4500. The two cores of this chip will run at 1.86GHz and will have the benefits of higher power efficiency brought by 32nm technology. Unfortunately, being Celeron, they will continue to lack support for turbo overclocking, “but the graphics can overclock to 667MHz” the report states.
The new processors will definitely lead to the raising of performance standards in the Value sector, even though the actual TDP will not be all that impressive, at 35W. The performance will go even higher when the new chips are paired with the Calpella platform.
Currently, one of the more powerful Celerons is, albeit designed for Montevina, the Celeron T3300. This chip has a clock speed of 2.0GHz and only 1MB cache memory. Of course, there is no way to confirm these rumors at this time and, thus, no word on the exact pricing and availability of these CPUs. All that is suggested is that the formal introduction of these chips will be made in the second quarter.