Intel's Yonah notebook chip clock speeds revealed

CHIP GIANT Intel has now firmed up clock speeds for its Yonah 65 nanometre version of the Centrino Pentium M chip, and will launch the beasts in both single core and dual core versions.

That's according to recent road maps seen by the INQUIRER, which show that the dual core models will clock at 2.17GHz, 2GHz, 1.83GHz and 1.67GHz. Each of these processors will include 667MHz buses, have 2MB of L2 cache, and support other desktop features such as VT.

The single core version of the Yonah processor will clock at 1.67GHz, and Intel will also introduce low voltage and ultra low voltage processors in dual core flavours.

The Yonah 65 nanometre chips will be launched in the first quarter of 2006.

Chip support will come with the 955XM, the 945GM and the 945PM. The first of these includes support for 4GB of memory. The second will include Display Power Saving Technology 2, while the third includes support for DDR2-667MHz, 2GB of maximum memory, and PCI Express X16 support.

In the second quarter of 2006, Intel will introduce the 945GMS and 940 GML chipsets. The latter supports a new family of Celeron mobile chips which will use a 4XX numbering scheme.

As far as pricing goes on its existing family of Pentium M notebook chips, Intel will make cuts at the end of July, at which time it will introduce its 780 (2.2GHz) Pentium M at $640. Prices of the existing members of the Pentium M family will drop then.

Intel will also choose this date to introduce the Pentium M LV 778, which clocks at 1.60GHz and will cost $280 or so. That date will also usher in the 380 (1.60GHz) Celeron M, at a price of around $130. An ULV version of the Celeron M, the 383 (1GHz/400MHz) bus will be introduced on the 24th of April. It will have 1MB of cache. µ