CES 2010: Intel Officially Announces Core i5 Chips Suitable for Apple Notebooks (and new i7s and i3s)
After all the lead up, Intel finally officially announced the new Core i7, i5 and i3 chips this morning. These chips were previously known by the Arrandale and Clarksdale codenames. The new chips represents the arrival of the 32nm manufacturing process and the Intel Turbo Boost Technology. Information about the new processors have leaked out for months with benchmarks posted earlier this week.
For Apple followers, the processor of most interest is the Intel Core i5 (Arrandale) which represents the first mobile version of the Nehalem architecture that could be used in Apple's notebooks. Early benchmarks have shown performance boosts of 11-29% compared to the similarly clocked processors found in the MacBook Pro.
When asked during the Q&A portion at the end of the press conference about which new processors will appear in Apple's product lines, Sean Maloney, executive Vice President and General Manager of the Intel Architecture Group, replied, "I do not pre-announce our partners' products and I certainly don't pre-announce Apple's products."
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We're still waiting for new notebooks.
Good answer.
Just trying to follow. :)
When asked during the Q&A portion at the end of the press conference about which new processors will appear in Apple's product lines, Sean Maloney, executive Vice President and General Manager of the Intel Architecture Group, replied, "I do not pre-announce our partners' products and I certainly don't pre-announce Apple's products."
OK, i don't geek on all of this stuff (reminds me too much of my old day job ;)), but this at first read comes across as segregating the "partner" from "Apple". I'm sure it was just to emphasize they don't pre-announce others products - but at first read... that isn't how i took it.
Back to not following the processors and all that..... :D
"I do not pre-announce our partners' products and I certainly don't pre-announce Apple's products."
Good answer.
BTW, ATI also release ATI Mobile Radeon 5000 series. It's looking quite promising
I'm having a hard time seeing why to upgrade. Hopefully there will be some hardware updates to the MPB line as well, but I doubt it as this is a serious performance boost and not just bumping the clock speed.
same here. that is if you mean upgrading your personal computers.
I need to see around 25 to 30% increase in performance and some other new features on top of that to consider upgrading from my current systems.
Apple is stupid if they don't use Arrandale in their laptops soon. Core 2 Duo is dead now and releasing a "new" product with it is even more stupid.
BTW, ATI also release ATI Mobile Radeon 5000 series. It's looking quite promising
It's not stupid if they wait to get custom chips without the integrated chips, trust me Arrandale's GPU is as just as awful as the previous Intel's GPU. Apple will insist on something of 9400M level or high.
I'm thinking i3 for basic macbook, i5 for midlevel MBP (13'/15') and i7 for 17' Macbook Pro. Great way to differentiate between products and prices.
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