Intel to Launch 10W and 13W Ivy Bridge CPUs in 2013
Prior to releasing Haswell processors in 2013, Intel will be introducing five significant Ivy Bridge processors for notebooks.
As seen in a slide from VR-Zone, what makes this CPUs special is the fact that Intel will be dropping the thermal design power of its ULV processors for the first time in several years. While the current lineup is designed for at least 17 watts power consumption, the upcoming dual-core Core i3-3229Y, Core i5-3239Y, Core i5-3439Y, and Core i7-3689Y will be dropping to 13 watts. Intel will even be launching a Pentium dual-core that is rated at just 10 watts.
Don't expect performance monsters with clock speeds between 1.1 GHz and 1.5 GHz, but there are clearly interesting opportunities for innovative Ultrabook designs and we would be surprised if those CPUs did not end up in a microserver design, which calls for CPUs that consume less than 15 watts. These specific Ivy Bridge processors will also come with a technology that will allow system vendors to limit the TDP of the CPUs even further (cTDP). The i-series will then run at 10 watts, and the Pentium at 7 watts.
All five new CPUs are expected to launch in Q1 2013.
The difference is your Core2Duo didn't have Intel's integrated GPU. That sucker will be sucking on most of the power as well as taking up most the die real-estate and any advantages from the smaller node process.
Still this is pretty cool. We might start getting affordable ultrabooks at do 10+ hours
The difference is your Core2Duo didn't have Intel's integrated GPU. That sucker will be sucking on most of the power as well as taking up most the die real-estate and any advantages from the smaller node process.
You can always set BF3 in software rendering mode...
Oh wait, it's not the early 2000's anymore.
I think a 2500K would be a tad overkill for mobile word processing, email checking and movie watching, right?
performance isnt the market. battery life is. and this is aimed for the common person who hates heavy ass laptops and love long lasting batteries.
They'll crush those processors. No comparison. I have an E-450, and it's a dog compared to these chips.
E2-1800s are only very slightly improved, they'll also get absolutely crushed.
The question is immaterial anyway, in most respects. The E-450 and E2-1800 are obsolete, and will be replaced soon. The Jaguar will be out, and will have roughly 25-30% more processing power, use less power, and in some configurations have four cores. That's what these processors will be competing against, and considering the small size of the Jaguar, competing on price as well as performance should not be terribly easy.
I think this is intel's testing grounds for ULV 10-13 watt chips. Get everything worked out so that when 10 watt haswell comes out, everything is working fine.
What's wrong with trying to expand the mobile sector market-share?
In 10 years, at least one developer would've released another Crysis-like game, utilizing all of the latest computing power hungry mechanics and stuff.
Thank you for being honest about that one. Some people act like these ULV chips provide great performance, which they don't. My standard TDP Ivy Bridge laptop at twice the clock speed isn't a performance monster, and cutting the clocks in half isn't going to help that very much.
More than half the CPU performance (frequency and core count aren't everything) and has a decent IGP too. Power consumption and TDP also aren't the same thing. Chances are that it's closer to one fifth or one sixth the power most of the time.