2006-7-15 18:41
As reported before, Merom, another branch of Intel Core architecture, is shipping in Aug with unknown launching day. According to the latest roadmap for Intel mobile processors, Intel has decided to launch Merom together with Conroe on July 23. Intel indicates that the decision was made according to their similarity in technology used and structure. Its meaningless to launch them separately. Yet the shipping time of Merom is unchanged to avoid any change in scheduled plans of manufacturers.
Intel is going to shipping the following five Merom based processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 (2.33GHz/4MB L2/667MHz FSB), T7400 (2.16GHz/4MB L2/667MHz FSB), T7200 (2GHz/4MB L2/667MHz FSB), T5600 (1.8GHz/2MB L2/667MHz FSB) and T5500 (1.66GHz/2MB L2/667MHz FSB), priced at US$637, US$423, US$294, US$241 and US$209 respectively.
Source indicates that Merom is priced at the same level as the existing Yonah (Core Duo) with the same clock speed. Its believed Intel is going to announce the price-cut for Yonah soon.
Besides, Intel plans to expand the market of low level mobile processor to against AMD Mobile Sempron with Socket S1. According to the latest roadmap for Intel mobile processors, Intel is going to launch four Yonah low level mobile processors on Sept. 3, including Celeron-M 450 (2GHz/1MB L2/533MHz FSB), Celeron-M 440 (1.86GHz/1MB L2/533MHz FSB), Low Voltage L2500 (1.8GHz/667MHz/2MB) and Ultra Low Voltage U2400 (1.06GHz/533MHz/2MB) at US$134, US$107, US$316, and US$262 respectively. At the same day, Celeron-M 430 (1.73GHz/1MB L2/533MHz) and Celeron-M 420(1.6GHz/1MB L2/533MHz) are dropped from US$134 and US$107 to US$86, sharing the same price, while L2400 is dropped from US$316 to US$284.
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