Intel To Support Cheap Ultrabooks With Low-Cost Celerons
Intel may be reacting to criticism that its processors are simply too expensive to support the lower price tags of Ultrabooks.
According to Digitimes, the company will soon be offering two ultra-low voltage Celerons that could be used as CPUs for cheaper compact notebooks. The Celeron ULV 877 and 807 will reportedly be sold for $86 and $70 respectively.
Meanwhile, Intel is planning the second wave of Ivy Bridge processors, set to land on June 3, according to Digitimes. The new lineup will include the quad-core CPUs Core i5-3570, i5-3470, i5-3570S, and i5-3475S for desktop applications with prices ranging from $184 to $205.
There will be one new dual-core desktop chip (i5-3470T, $184), two new notebook CPUs (i7-3520M, i5-3360M and i5-3320M for $346, $266 and $225, respectively), as well as the Core i7-3367M and i5-3427M for Ultrabooks ($346 and $225).
Who would buy this?
a cheap ultrabook with celeron cpu is a netbook, period. i hope people don't buy into 'cheap ultrabook' BS. a decent low end netbook would be ivb pentium with hd4000 igpu.
intel is so scared of trinity..... ;D
a cheap ultrabook with celeron cpu is a netbook, period. i hope people don't buy into 'cheap ultrabook' BS. a decent low end netbook would be ivb pentium with hd4000 igpu.
intel is so scared of trinity..... ;D
Who would buy this?
people that don't really care about quality
... if intel is scared from AMD's Tinity APU's, than it is a stupid move from intel's part to put celerons to get ultrabooks cheaper... intel needed to lower prices because they haz still the best CPU, but GPU is shit... if intel puts celeron's in to ultrabooks, they will have shitty CPU's and GPU's...
this is not true...take a look at most the netbooks, laptops, tablets and smartphones today...people will buy what the can afford no matter how the hardware performs....do you really think that someone will little money cares how fast or how slow something is?...they are just happy to have something
So instead of lowering the prices, they just use a lower priced CPU. Brilliant, Intel /s
I think the only reason Intel isn't willing to drop prices is A) they can keep them steady (like Apple and the iPhone/carrier agreements) and B) they haven't made as much profit because they've had to ramp up production an build new facilities to support the 22nm production. They do need to start dropping the price in the next few months though.
Most people will buy it because it is Intel.
Why the hell not? If it's still a Penryn core (they were massively crippled, one core only, those penryn celerons), it could be a problem, but with sandy cores you still get the latest tech.
Brand recognition is Intel's main weapon for the low to mid end market. Hardly anyone that I know are aware of AMD's existence.
intel shopuld start respecting their clients a bit more. and I know that its tiring to see trinity constatly be compared, but damn, intel should come up with better ideas to combat the rising AMD in the laptop market. If you compare how many AMD laptops were on shelves a few years ago to how many there are now, youll notice how far AMD has come. Manufacturers are moving towards to cheap low power solutions amd comes up with. Intel might have the best CPUs, but their marketing and execs are stupid.