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Digitimes says that Intel plans to launch several new desktop processors in the third quarter of 2010 to replace some previous models, and that the chip giant will also reduce some CPU prices to boost demand. They are basing all their thoughts from sources inside motherboard makers, but it doesn't seem too far fetched.
In mid-July, will launch three processors including the six-core Core i7-970, priced at US$885; quad-core Core i5-760 with core frequencies of 2.8GHz and priced at US$205; and quad-core Core i5-870S for small form factor PCs and priced at US$351. All prices are in thousand-unit tray quantities. Intel will launch the Pentium E5700 for US$75 in early August and Core i3-560, Pentium E6800 and Celeron E3500 at the end of the month with prices of US$138, US$86 and US$53, respectively. At the end of August, Intel will also reduce its quad-core Core i7-950's price from US$562 to US$294. For mid-July, Intel will reduce its Core i3-540, Pentium E6600 and Pentium E5500 CPU prices from US$133, US$84 and US$75 to US$117, US$75 and US$64, respectively. In mid-October, Intel will cut the Core i3-550, Pentium E6700 and Pentium E5700 from US$138, US$86 and US$75 to US$117, US$75 and US$64, respectively, while the entry-level Celeron E3400 will also see its price drop from US$53 to US$42 at the same time.
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3,2 Ghz
130 W
Gulftown
0.032 micron High-K metal gate process
1170 million transistors
263 mm2
64 bit
6 cores
Integrated FPU
L1: 6 x 32 KB instruction caches
6 x 32 KB data caches
L2: 6 x 256 KB
L3: 12 MB
Instruction sets: MMX SSE 1-4.2 Supplemental SSE3 AES EM64T NXbit Hyper-Threading Virtualization Turbo Boost
Integrated 3-channel DDR3 SDRAM Memory controller (DDR3-1066 memory) & Quick Path Interconnect
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2,8 Ghz
95 W
Lynnfield
0.045 micron
64 bit
4 cores
64 bit
Integrated FPU
L1 Cache: 4 x 32 KB instruction caches
4 x 32 KB data caches
L2: 4 x 256 KB
L3: 8 MB shared cache
Instructions: MMX SSE 1-4.2 Supplementary SSE3 EM64T Virtualization NXbit Turbo Boost Speedstep