David Flynn03 June 2009, 3:14 PM
The four-chip ULV family repackages Celeron and Pentium mobile processors to make thin-and-light notebooks even more affordable.
Computex 2009 | Intel has dusted off the 16-year old Pentium brand and slipped it into the ULV mix, joining the Celeron on the lower half of the price-performance ladder beneath a pair of Core 2 powerplants.
While the Pentium and Celeron mobile processors use the older NetBurst 65nm architecture they’ve been re-engineered to fit into the same small 22m2 package size as their 45nm Penryn-class Core 2 Solo and Core 2 Duo counterparts.
The rejuvenated Pentium, which clocks at 1.3GHz with 2MB of cache and carries the SU2700 moniker, has already been adopted by Lenovo as one of the engines available in its
IdeaPad U350.
Intel sees the Pentium ULV chip as sitting just above systems built around the entry-level 1.2GHz Celeron 723 as the ‘mainstream performance’ offering. Above that are ranked the 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo SU3500 and 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 for providing the best ‘multimedia experience’.
David Flynn is attending Computex 2009 as a guest of Intel.