Intel quietly launches new Core CPUs

SUMMER HAS COME and hardware vendors are slowly cleaning the inventory in order to get new products ready for the back-to-school shopping frenzy. It is the slow summer that usually marks the appearance of some obscure and not-so-obscure products which are slowly sending old stuff into oblivion (consumers' homes).

Although there has been a real tie-in between Dell and AMD lately, Intel still likes its biggest buyer and no-one should wonder that Dell silently introduced two new Intel processors, both based on the Yonah core.

If you express a desire to buy Inspiron E1705 single-core notebook for $899, you'll end up with an Intel Core Solo T1350 processor. We're talking about Yonah-core, 2MB of L2 cache at a clock of 1.83 GHz. FrontSideBus is set at 533MHz, an untypical clock speed for Core processors. Or should we express it as 133MHz times four chunks of data.

If you want to a dual-core CPU powered notebook, Dell offer an Inspiron E1705, packed with an Core Duo T2250, a 1.73GHz clocked dual-core CPU with 533MHz FSB as well. It seems these babies exist only to be combined with cheaper DDR-II 533 memory, since the regular FSB clock for the Yonah has been 667MHz from Day One. The price of the latter has been set at $1.199, which is a really sweet price for a dual-core notebook.

Both of these CPUs are unknown to Intel's web-site, so it could be an OEM deal only. The page could end up updated, so you can check it out via our complementary L'INQs. µ

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Dell's sweet deal site for Core Solo
Dell's sweet deal site for Core Duo
Intel's official Core marchitecture page