14 DAY TRIAL // It's one thing to keep hearing about the impending arrival of new Intel central processing unit, and another to actually see the product collection making its entrance. But we're definitely seeing it happen.
The Santa Clara, California-based corporation has officially launched one Core i7 CPU, four Core i5 units, five Core i3 chips, two Celeron and five Pentium processors.
Of the Core i5 units, two are powered by the Haswell architecture and the other two are designed with the Ivy Bridge core logic.
All of them sell for the same amount of money though: $182, and probably €182 in Europe, even though exchange rates suggest €137 instead.
They are all quad-core, 4-thread CPUs with 6 MB cache memory and a clock speed of 2.8 GHz or 3.10 GHz.
The Core i3 chips are all dual-core models with 3/4 MB cache and 4 threads (hyper-threading technology). They function at 2.9 to 3.6 GHz and have prices of $122 / €122 to $149 / €149.
Moving to the Pentium chips, they all are dual-core processors but with no Hyper-Threading. Clocks range from 2.6 GHz to 3.3 GHz, the cache is of 3 MB, and prices are of $64 / €64 to $86 / €86.
The two Celeron CPUs are the weakest of the lot, with 2 cores, 2 threads, 2 MB cache, 2.4/2.8 GHz clocks, and prices of $42 / €42 and $52 / €52.
That leaves the Core i7-4771, a quad-core central processor with 3.5 GHz clock, 8 threads, 8 MB cache memory, and a price of $314 / €314.
Most, if not all, these newcomers have HD graphics included on the x86 die. Retail channels should start selling them soon, if they haven't already listed them. Check the table on the left for the exact chip names and specs, as well as price tags.
