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Hardware Intel Mobile Processor Roadmap: Merom, Yonah
Brandon Hill (Blog) - February 15, 2006 11:05 AM

30 comment(s) - last by Knish.. on Feb 16 at 4:14 PM

Pricing and release dates for upcoming Intel products revealed

Intel's Yonah hasn't gotten quite the launch that many would have like to have seen. Core Solo and Duo based PC notebooks are few and far between these days. Apple and the smaller boutique PC notebook manufacturers have been able to launch products based on Yonah, but the heavy hitters like Dell are still lagging behind a bit. In the mean time, Intel's mobile processor roadmap is abuzz with activity. Intel will launch Core Solo Ultra Low Voltage processors on April 23rd. At that time, 1.06GHz and 1.2GHz models will be available, with a 1.06GHz ultra low voltage Core Duo U1400 to join the family Q3'06.

An Intel Core Duo T2700 will replace the T2600 at the top of the Yonah processor family. The T2700 will debut in Q3 with a clock speed of 2.33GHz and a price of $640. The T2700 will have a short reign at the top of Core Duo product range. Q4 will see the launch of Merom. Merom launch at speeds ranging from 1.83GHz to 2.33GHz and will feature EMT64 support -- more than a year after AMD brought Turion64 to the mobile sector. Granted, I still have yet to see a laptop with more than 4GB of memory anyway.

Intel Mobile Performance Roadmap

Processor Brand

Processor No.

Core Name

Clock Speed/FSB

Cache

Launch Date

Price @ Launch

Merom Processor

T7600

Merom

2.33GHz / 667MHz

4MB

Q4'06

$637 (???)

Merom Processor

T7400

Merom

2.16GHz / 667MHz

4MB

Q4'06

$423 (???)

Merom Processor

T7200

Merom

2.0GHz / 667MHz

4MB

Q4'06

$294 (???)

Merom Processor

T5600

Merom

1.83GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Q4'06

$241 (???)

Intel Core Duo

T2700

Yonah

2.33GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Q3'06

$637 (???)

Intel Core Duo

T2600

Yonah

2.16GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Now

Intel Core Duo

T2300E

Yonah

1.66GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Q2'06

$209 (05/28)

Intel Core Solo

T1400

Yonah

1.83GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Q2'06

$209 (05/28)

Intel Core Duo LV

L2400

Yonah

1.66GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Now

Intel Core Duo LV

L2300

Yonah

1.50GHz / 667MHz

2MB

Now

Intel Core Duo ULV

U2500

Yonah

1.06GHz / 533MHz

2MB

Q3'06

$289 (???)

Intel Core Solo ULV

U1400

Yonah

1.20GHz / 533MHz

2MB

Q2'06

$262 (04/16)

Intel Core Solo ULV

U1300

Yonah

1.06MHz / 533MHz

2MB

Q2'06

$241 (04/16)

Yonah based Celeron processors are on the way for the second quarter ranging in speed from 1.46GHz to 1.73GHz. The chips will still feature 1MB of L2 cache and will come will feature a 533MHz FSB.

Intel Mobile Value Roadmap

Processor Brand

Processor No.

Core Name

Clock Speed/FSB

Cache

Price @ Launch

Intel Celeron M

430

Yonah

1.73GHz/533MHz

1MB

$134 (04/16)

Intel Celeron M

420

Yonah

1.60GHz/533MHz

1MB

$107 (04/16)

Intel Celeron M

410

Yonah

1.46GHz/533MHz

1MB

$86 (05/28)

Intel Celeron M ULV

423

Yonah

1.06GHz/533MHz

1MB

$161 (04/16)

Intel expects to ramp up the production of dual-core mobile processors thoughout 2006 (see image, right). In Q1 of 2006, dual core processors are expected to make up just over 25% of Intel's total mobile processor shipments. By Q4, that product mix will do a complete 180 with dual core processors making up just over 80% of Intel's total mobile processor shipments.