New Intel CPUs Coming for Ultraportable Notebooks

New Intel CPUs Coming for Ultraportable Notebooks

Intel is planning to introduce two new Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) processors in March this year, aimed at ultraportable notebooks. The Core 2 Duo SU9600 (1.6GHz) and Core 2 Solo SU3500 (1.4GHz) will be priced at $289 and $262 in 1000-unit quantities.

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Hmm. I would have expected a larger price difference between them.

 

oh no, just as i want to order a new 2730p, which now doesn't have an ulv anymore in. i'd give away .22ghz for being ulv any day!! 1.6ghz ulv has to be a great performer per watt!!

 

What is the TDP rating of these processors ?

 

Pricing on the single core SU3500 makes no sense unless it has an insanely low, Atom-like TDP.

 

10W for the SU9600. 5.5W for the SU3500.

http://www.cpu-world.com/Mobile_CPU_releases.html

 

Wait ... core 2 in a netbook? I may put off my purchase of a netbook for a few months!

 

These are notebook processors and will be priced accordingly. These processors by themselves cost almost as much as some netbooks do when they're on sale.

As a comparison the N270 netbook CPU costs something like $46 compared to the Su3500's $262.

 

ohhh ... I thought the netbook was starting at 262. In that case, I think I'll get an Atom.

 

If we could get a netbooks with a Core 2 Duo ULV while still retaining netbook prices, I'd be all over them! But that will never happen.................EVER.

 

It will happen. In 4 or 5 years you should be able to buy an 11" Core 2 Duo ULV on eBay for what a new netbook will cost. ;þ

 

And by then, there will be new ULV processors that will make the current ones look like Atoms, no offense.

 

Yeah that was my point. But you said it will "never ever" happen. ;þ

Dual-cores will be standard in netbooks when quad-cores are standard in notebooks.

 

Which is 2 years away.

 

I'm really disappointed with the price of the SU3500. This thing should have price more like $162 than $262 but I'll guess that Intel felt that would mess with sales of the Z540 Atom which costs $160.

Manufacturers aren't using the Z540 Atom more because it costs $70 more than the Z530 Atom ($97) and along the same reasoning I don't see the point in using a SU3500 when it's only $27 less than the SU9400 ($289).

Intel needs to rework their pricing a bit.

 

I thought the limiting issue was TDP rating of processors rather than price in netbooks ?

The P series core 2 duo has a TDP rating of 25 W, the atom has like 2W; I dont see this problem being solved anytime soon.

Quad cores are not that far off, they have TDP of 45 W (and already being put in dell precison laptops). Another 10W off and they will have the same TDP as the T series core 2 duo

 

The limiting issue on netbook processors is the sale of notebook processors.

A lot of consumers right now want their netbooks to be cheap replacements to notebooks. They'd take the performance loss because they don't do much with their computers besides browse the internet and send emails.

However letting netbooks CPUs become viable alternatives to notebook CPUs would really hurt AMD and Intel. Via would benefit because they have no full-powered notebook processors, and notebook manufacturers would benefit because they could offer notebooks that contain less expensive parts (they lose less money if they can't sell last years Atom when a new series comes out) but CPU manufacturers would lose business and full specced notebooks would end up costing more.

If the SU3500 was priced under $200, say at like $175 I believe we'd see 11" to 13" notebooks, using it or the AMD Neo, that would be in the price range of $600-800 and end up killing the 10" netbook.

Only the N270/N280 Atoms would die though. The Z5xx Atoms would continue to exist as hand-held MID processors and the 230/330 Atoms would continue in nettop processors.

 

Isn't a 13'' netbook with a dual core cpu a notebook?

I certainly don't want to pay $500 for a netbook. I'm planning on buying one because they are cheap and small.

 

I was just saying that Quad Cores may be standard in two years, since AMD's Liano processor for notebooks will be out in 2011. And by then, there should be a dual core Atom with a low enough TDP for netbooks.

And at Cebit, Asus and MSI will show off their laptops with these new processors: Here