THE RUMOUR MILL is saying that Intel is about to release a family of dual-core CPUs for ultrathin notebooks.
According to Digitimes, Chipzilla plans to upgrade its ultrathin notebook portfolio before the year is out to include dual-core CPUs.
The Core 2 Solo SU3000 will be scrapped and replaced with the Core 2 Duo SU7000. The Pentium SU2000 will be replaced with the Core 2 Duo SU4000.
The single-core Celeron will be taking the revolver and a bottle of brandy to the library and will be replaced with the dual-core Celeron SU3000.
Chipzilla will still keep the single-core Celeron 700 in the entry-level market, as well as the SU9000 for the high-end market, sources noted.
Intel plans to launch its Pine Trail-M platform for netbooks in December, although products will not start selling in retail channels until early next year. µ
It was bound to happen, I mean with technology getting better and shrinks in the die size and reductions in power usage it was inevitable.
I'm looking forward to reasonable price quad cores on notebooks, although I dare say I'd have to upgrade my existing notebook rather than being able to get a drop in CPU.
Rob
What are the chances that Apple will be getting these early for new (white plastic) MacBook updates in the next couple of weeks? Do they have VT?
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Wake me up when they release ultrathin notebooks with a real GPU instead of 4500mhd nonsense.
While everyone is moving apps to the GPU, Intel has to make do with the CPU, and there are tasks the CPU just doesn't do as well as the GPU.
NVidia, ATI, please put something decent in an 11.6 or 12.1 thin and light form factor so that we can buy something that isn't obselete right off the bat because it has Intel graphics.