Intel's Next Desktop Launch Details Revealed

[Ankur Gupta]

Intel prepares to launch its Core 2 Duo E6x50-series, new E4000-series models and the Pentium E2100-series

The first upgrade of Intel's Conroe architecture is right around the corner. Roadmaps reveal the refreshed Conroe with a 1333 MHz front-side-bus arriving in Q3’07, around the same time of Intel’s Q3’07 price cuts. The new Core 2 Duo E6x50-series pricing will undercut pricing of current Core 2 Duo E6x00-series processors.

With the introduction of Core 2 Duo E6x50-series processors, the entire Intel Core 2 Duo desktop lineup will fall below the $300 price point. The Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 takes the top spot of Intel’s Core 2 Duo lineup at $266 per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities. Intel clocks the Core 2 Duo E6850 at 3.0 GHz, higher than last year’s flagship Core 2 Extreme X6800 and it costs a fraction of the X6800’s $999 launch price.



Slotted below the Core 2 Duo E6850 is the 2.66 GHz E6750 at $183. At the bottom end of the Core 2 Duo E6x50 family are the E6550 and E6540 processors clocked at 2.33 GHz, which cost $163 per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities. Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6540 differs from the rest of the 1333 MHz front-side bus Core 2 Duo lineup because it does not have support for Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology, also known as TXT.



Intel will also launch two more Core 2 Duo E4000-series processors. The Core 2 Duo E4400 will arrive next month clocked at 2.0 GHz for $133 per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities. In Q3’07, the Core 2 Duo E4400 will drop down to $113 with the introduction of the E4500. The Core 2 Duo E4500 clocks in at 2.2 GHz and takes over the $133 per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities, price point. Intel will slowly phase out the Core 2 Duo E4300 processor in Q3’07.



Intel will introduce the first new Pentium desktop product since it switched over to the Core naming scheme in June. Two Pentium E2100 models will launch, the E2160 and E2140. These models are dual-core Conroe-based processors with 1MB of shared L2 cache. The 1.80 GHz Pentium E2160 fills the $84 price point while the 1.6 GHz Pentium E 2140 costs $10 less per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities.

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This is was what I was waiting for a long time...As my time to upgrade comes near Intel brings out lower priced processors forcing me to dump my plans of buying a AMD-FX processor...

[gxsaurav]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

thats it. My current 3 years old 3.06 GHz Intel CPU is still holding. I was going to buy an E6600 but no more, E6750 here i come

[Sourabh]

HKEPC gets it spot on everytime! I really doubt if this is official. It will be, but doesn't come from Intel as of now to the best I know.

[Ankur Gupta]

If the actual pricing is the way it is mentioned on the source link then I will certainly buy a E6850 from the US...

[The Unknown]

I am not interested in this. For currently my p3 is ok. When there's a real need, i'll buy one which will be the latest.

[shashank4u]

P3 ????? still .
what can u do in that P3 other than surfing...just askin..

[blackpearl]

Me and my Pentium D!!

*sob*

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by shashank4u

P3 ????? still .
what can u do in that P3 other than surfing...just askin..

Play Games,

I have WXPSP2. But on Saturday(17-3-07) i am going to load FC6.

[joey_182]

hmm..p3??good...

[ninad_mhatre85]

Originally Posted by The Unknown

i'll buy one which will be the latest.

hey there is nothing like latest..... as soon as u buys something, something new and better will come ...........

[goobimama]

P3? Sheeeeee! Mods please delete that post....it curdles my blood (Just kidding by the way, my blood is fine).

Anyway, me too was thinking of upgrading especially since those HD DVDs look so tempting to play, but my P4 3.06HT (GX, is this the same as yours?) would fail on me.....

Finally i get some hope...

[kirangp]

as soon as I go to Australia,the first thing I will do is buy one of these..

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by goobimama

Anyway, me too was thinking of upgrading especially since those HD DVDs look so tempting to play, but my P4 3.06HT (GX, is this the same as yours?) would fail on me.....

Pentium 4 3.06 GHz with 533 MHz FSB & 512 KB L2 Cache, based on socket 478 & installed in Intel 865GBF motherboard. The first CPU from Intel with HT.

It does the job fine man, I can't watch 1080i HD Videos but it playes 720p Videos fine. Besides, my 17" Monitor can go upto 1280X1024 only so don't need anything higher then 720p HD videos.

Core 2 Duo E6700 does looks the best bang for buck. Thats a lot of power. With the relese of these CPUs, E6600 prices will also drop resulting in a better buy for Indian market. Remember we are still saling Pentium D here mostly , where the hell is AMD, why can't they do some marketing for Athlon64 here in Digit or Newspaper or TV.

E2xxx series looks quite good for offices, & low cost PCs for Students in Labs etc, now if only they could adopt the DTX form factor to actully make use of the low temprature features of these CPU. It is the next celeron.

For Mac mini, E4xxx series should be a boon. Low temprature with Bearlake chipset which means DX10\OpenGL 2.0 graphics with hardware decoding of videos.

[XtremeFuturistic]

Life rocks Q3 onwards

[chesss]

what can u do inthat P3 other than surfing...just askin.

everything except play new games. I got rid of my PIII a month ago. Now using a laptop .

[blackpearl]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

Remember we are still saling Pentium D here mostly , where the hell is AMD, why can't they do some marketing for Athlon64 here in Digit or Newspaper or TV.

The reason why AMD's sales are poor inspite of Athlon64 beating the P4s is because of lack of ads. Just when was the last time you saw an AMD ad? I have seen none in TV. Only rarely they appear on a mag or newspaper and that too not from AMD. Rather its from a branded PC with AMD processors. I guess there is no ad campaign specifically from AMD. I mean, how dumb is that!!

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by goobimama

P3? Sheeeeee! Mods please delete that post....it curdles my blood (Just kidding by the way, my blood is fine).

Anyway, me too was thinking of upgrading especially since those HD DVDs look so tempting to play, but my P4 3.06HT (GX, is this the same as yours?) would fail on me.....

Finally i get some hope...

You all guys use Windows with lot of CPU consuming tasks. Win Xp runs fine on P3 even with 128Mb Ram and 500Mhz CPU. I was having 128 but now i have 384. However Linux will NOT give any prob. for me. And If i want to run any WApp on Linux, i'll use Wine- Not the drink, the Windows Environment Emulator which fools the apps that they r running in Windows, but actually it runs on Linux.

[Pathik]

if e6850 is really arnd 12k in india.. Then amd is screwed..

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

Is Amd listening

[rakeshishere]

What to do next?

[sms_solver]

now price are droping down, i think i should buy C2D by Mar 2008

[goobimama]

What's the point of going duo now? Better to go in for some quad action...future proof...

[rakeshishere]

Originally Posted by sms_solver

now price are droping down, i think i should buy C2D by Mar 2008

will it exist or will it become extinct?

[kirangp]

I think AMD should really come out with a very good processor within that time otherwise as the previous year Intel will rule the markets again...I dont think AMD considers India as a very good market,otherwise no other reason for NO ADS POLICY in India..Only people who have idea about AMD buy it otherwise they are still in Baba Azam zamaana thinking that AMD processor is a nuclear bomb whereas Intel processor is summer of Delhi( I have seen many people thinking like that)

[Pathik]

Originally Posted by kirangp

Only people who have idea about AMD buy it otherwise they are still in Baba Azam zamaana thinking that AMD processor is a nuclear bomb whereas Intel processor is summer of Delhi( I have seen many people thinking like that)

wat did that mean??

[kirangp]

Originally Posted by pathiks

wat did that mean??

It means that AMD processors still are very hot & crash systems( nuclear bomb) while Intel processors are cool(Delhi summers are tolerable compared to nuclear bombs)...I have seen dealers in SP Road Bangalore say like that to a customer recently

[Ankur Gupta]

^^Oh common man...its time for you to search which processors run cooler...
AMD are the coolest desktop processors....you have got in totally wrong...

[gxsaurav]

Core 2 Duo runs cooler then AMD Athlon64 which runs cooler then Pentium D (Presshot core )

But really, AMD needs to do some marketing else they are screwed. They should also look at other markets while Via is ruling, like UPMC, Phone, PDA etc.

[blackpearl]

AMD has a very stupid marketing department. I wouldn't be surprised if I hear they don't even have a marketing dept How can they ignore something like marketing? Look at Intel, everywhere you look there is Intel ads. You open the newspapaer in the morning and you are greeted with big Intel ads. You will find Intel ads in tech magazines, sports mag and even women's mag. You go out and you see huge Intel hoardings on the streets. You switch on the tv and you see Intel ads in between sports, movies, news and even saas bahu serials!!

Now if such a person who has been exposed to Intel ads every day of his life decides to buy a PC, will he walk into a store and pick up AMD? Certainly not. He might have not even heard of AMD if he is an average non-tech person. Even if he has, most likely he has heard it badly. Actually AMD made a very bad entry into the processor business with its AthlonXPs. That hurt its business very badly and is hurting even now, thanks to their no-ads policy.

I'm not a AMD fan but their stupidity baffles me.

[Pathik]

amd relies more on word of mouth rather than ads... Wich seemed to work earlier.. But since c2d evything has changed..