Intel to introduce Core Duo (Yonah) with only 9W TDP

While it won't be the most powerful chip out there, the U2500 should be amazing for ultraportable laptops.

The new Yonah processor will be called U2500 (clock at 1.2GHz/2MB L2/533MHz FSB), support Intel Virtualization(VT) technology, Enhanced Intel Speed Step(EIST) technology, Intel EM64T technology (?? this is questionable) and Execute Disable Bit(XD Bit) technology. According to Intel, U2500 is price at USD$289.

The release date is June 25th.

According to the latest mobile roadmap:

Hehe, no, but I'm sure we'll see it there later today or tuesday.

9W, man Intel's got everything right!... i'm really happy that we are going to get such a great technology at a cheap price... Xcellent work Intel! AMD must be doing " "..

are you me?? (o_O)

Yes, this is gonna put a hurtin' on VIA's low voltage/performance chips. :?

Yeah that is a good point. Based on the rumors for Intel new integrated graphics (965G: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2548), the graphics chipset will have hardware accelleration for all the popular video codecs h.264 etc... so one could build a cool, silent, fanless HTPC with a very small form factor out of these parts. Interesting info for the future to say the least.

You know, this is actaully a REALLY good point... with the IPC efficiency of the Core uArch, 1.2 GHz is likely to get near 2.0 or better GHz performance of a Netburst P4 and with dual core in action, well --- check out what this guy did:

http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/a [...] 75795.aspx

No wonder Intel endorsed HD-DVD .... I guess we know where some of this excess P4 inventory will be going, HD-DVD players may drop in price faster than we think.
Jack

Nice link!

I'm sure Shakira-woo would cry out loud that guy & his friend weren't even released yet...


Cheers!

The Core Duo ULV has really been anticipated since the beginning and I'm actually a little bit disappointed that it's taken them 6 months to finally come out with it. I'm actually interested in the LV versions so hopefully the 1.83GHz LV will be released on June 25th along with the 1.2GHz ULV and the 2.33GHz regular. It's too bad the LV Meroms aren't expected until 2007. A 2GHz 15W Merom would be great.

I did not say "just like", I said “kind of like”, referring to the low TDP.