The PC Report

Only a few weeks after Intel announced their Pine Trail platform we are seeing the new 32nm Intel Arrandale and Clarkdale processors for the latest generation of computers. Like the new Pine Trail Atom processors, the new chips contain both a processing die and an integrated graphics die. As you can see in the picture above, the 32nm processing die is slightly smaller than the 45nm GPU die.

First off we have the Arrandale platform, which are the mobile iterations of the 32nm Nehalem process. Launched today were a total of 11 Arrandale-based processors: five Intel Core i7s ranging from 1.06GHz to 2.66GHz, four Intel Core i5s ranging from 1.06GHz to 2.53GHz and two Intel Core i3s at 2.13 and 2.26GHz. All the processors carry 2 physical cores and 4 threads via Intel’s HyperThreading technology, support DDR3 RAM at speeds of either 800 or 1066 MHz and (except for the Core i3s) can make use of Turbo Boost, which pushes a single core beyond the rated speed to achieve the best performance. The full chart of new CPUs is below.

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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.