4MB low voltage Meroms expected in January

INTEL HAS told its OEM customers that it will launch the L7400 and the L7200 in January, at prices of $315 and $285 respectively.

These are low voltage (LV) components with 4MB of cache, clocking at 1.50GHz and 1.33GHz respectively, and with system bus speeds of 667MHz.

Intel will also introduce an ultra low voltage component - the U1500 - a Core Solo microprocessor, which will have 2MB of cache, clock at 1.33GHz and have a bus speed of 533MHz.

The firm is also readying the 520 Celeron Mobile in January for around $130 - this has 1MB of cache, clocks at 1.60GHz and has a 533MHz system bus.

Generally speaking, it is holding prices of its other range of Merom notebook processors steady - this indicates to us that it feels it has an advantage over the competition from AMD for quite some few months.

Intel's 943GML chipset is slated for an introduction in the first quarter of next year - this supports DDR2-533 and an FSB of 533MHz. In the second quarter it will introduce the GM965 and the PM 965, which supports DDR-2 667MHz bus speeds, and based on ICH8M and ICH8M enhanced.

The GL960 is aimed at the "value segment" and Intel predicts that will arrive in Q3 of 2007. Intel has given a SKU name to its WWAN Windigo wireless tech - this will be called the 1965HSD and is expected to launch at $180 or so. µ