Core 2 Duo E7000 Series – Low End Penryn (45nm) Processors

Intel plans to launch Core 2 Duo E7000 series the low end Penryn processors

13/01/08

While AMD is still struggling and has defects with their Phenom chip, Intel is moving full speed ahead. Intel has completed the release of the Core 2 Duo E8000 Series the first Penryn (45 nm) Core 2 Duo mainstream processors, and now working on the Core 2 Duo E7000 series. The Penryn based Core 2 Duo E7000 series will be aimed at the low end market.

The first model out will be the Core 2 Duo E7200. The E7200 will have only 3 MB of L2 cache and FSB sped of 1066 MHz, the same as the Core 2 Duo E6000 series. The Core 2 Duo E7200 will run at 2.53 GHz. Intel clearly expects the Penryn based Core 2 Duo to out perform the Core 2 Duo E6000 series despite the lower L2 cache. As for pricing we’ll just have to wait and see.
Intel is also releasing the first of the Dual Core Celeron based processors the E1000 series. The first to come will be the Celeron E1200 running at 1.6 GHz and the Celeron E1400 running at 1.8 GHz. The Celeron E1000 series will have 512 KB of L2 cache and FSB speed of 800 MHz.