Posted on Tuesday, December 01 2009 @ 18:57 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
reports Intel has plans to release at least three 32nm mobile Arrandale processors on January 3rd, 2010. Unfortunately, all three chips have a rather high TDP of 35W.
Core i5 520M, the cheapest of the lot, has two cores and four threads at a base frequency of 2.4GHz and as expected, it supports Turbo Mode and can run even faster. It features 3MB of cache and will sell for $225.
The next runner up is Core i5 540M with two cores, four threads, Turbo Mode, 3MB of L2 cache, a 2.53GHz frequency and as of January 3rd, it will sell for $257.
The last one is called Core i7 620M and it also has two cores and four thread. However, it features 4MB of cache and is clocked at a base frequency of 2.66GHz. It supports Turbo Mode and can run faster. On January 3rd, it will sell for $332 in quantities of 1,000,
