Intel Pentium E6500 dual-core coming in Q3 2009

Posted on Friday, June 19 2009 @ 0:01 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

FUD Zilla reports Intel will debut the dual-core Pentium E6500 in the third quarter:

The mentioned Pentium dual-core E6300 works at 2.8GHz, has FSB 1066 and 2MB cache, while the new E6500 works at 2.93GHz, has the same FSB 1066 and 2MB cache.

The TDP for this 45nm Wolfdale based dual-core remains 65W while, at launch it should sell for $84. This CPU will show its face in Q3 and the current plan is to keep the E6300 to coexists and E5x00 series of the same CPU with FSB800 will continue to sell for $74 and below.

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