14 DAY TRIAL // Intel hasn't followed up its initial Haswell product release with another one, and probably won't for a few weeks or months still, as it has already made waves with the most relevant processors.
As ironic as it sounds, however, the chips that got the most attention, the high-end and mighty Core i7 series, won't sell as much as some may think.
That's because they are so powerful as to be named overpowered, and so expensive that most people won't afford them. They are there for bragging rights really, mostly.
The Core i5 are only slightly better off. Haswell Core i3 will probably sell more, as will the Pentium and Celeron brands. Both through retail and as part of pre-configured PCs.
Two such pre-configured PCs, in this case notebooks, have revealed the existence, or at least impending arrival, of the Pentium 3556U and Core i3-4005U CPUs.
They are the Packard Bell EasyNote TE69 (part TE69HW-29554G50Mnsk) and the Lenovo IdeaPad S310 and S410 laptops.
Core i3-4005U is a dual-core with a frequency of 1.7 GHz and 3 MB of L3 cache memory. The Hyper-Threading technology turns the 2 cores into 4 logical ones though, giving the PC roughly twice the processing power, at least in multi-threaded applications.
The other CPU, Pentium 3556U, is also a dual-core with 1.7 GHz speed, but only 2 MB of cache memory and no Hyper-Threading.
Both processors have a TDP (thermal design power) of 15W. Quite low really, and fitting for mobile personal computers.
That said, the newcomers are ULT products that integrate a CPU, GPU and Platform Controller Hub in one package. There is no information on the graphics capabilities, however.
If Intel ends up making any sort of formal announcement in regard to these two chips, it won't happen until September 1, according to CPU World.