We’ve seen a few things concerning the upcoming Intel Core i3 and mobile Core i5 processors, and today Intel said they would officially launch them on January 7 next year. In a demonstration today, they showed off the dual-core Arrandale and Clarkdale 32nm chips, both which pack new integrated graphics on the CPU itself, named “Intel HD Graphics.” Both the i3s and i5s also feature HyperThreading, and the mobile i5 also has TurboBoost (a feature also found on the desktop i5 and i7 variants).
On the display models presented at the event, the mobile Core i5 chips were doing a great job of playing Call of Duty 4 on their integrated graphics, and the Core i3s were handling World of Warcraft and Blu-ray movies fine. Of course, these aren’t a solid indication of how powerful they are, but with the imminent launch we should be getting benchmarks pretty soon.
