Intel to officially refresh laptop chips next week?

We had a hunch this refresh was coming, and according to information gathered by CNET, it's all going down on Monday. The 2.53GHz SP9600, complete with its 6MB of cache memory and $316 sticker, will reportedly be revealed alongside the 1.6GHz SU9600, which will be pegged at $289. Furthermore, we should see a single-core 1.4GHz SU3500 ($262) with a thermal envelope of only 5.5 watts, which will obviously cater to those really, really low-power applications where horsepower isn't a concern. Interestingly, these newfangled pieces of silicon won't be those rumored CULV chips we heard about in January, as those won't be good and ready 'til summertime. There's also a slight chance that we'll hear a bit more on Intel's reemergence in the GPU field, but we're not holding our breath quite so much on that. Dig in below for lots more, or just be patience and wait for the 30th. Totally your call.

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[mianmian Posted Mar 27th 2009 10:06PM]

First!
And i am interested to know the performace difference between a SU3500 and a dual core Atom.

[CheesusCrust Posted Mar 27th 2009 10:23PM]

Good post if it weren't for the "FIRST BITCHES!!!"

[mattForce5 Posted Mar 27th 2009 10:24PM]

I would pick the Intel Core 2 Solo rather than the underpowered Intel Atom. It won't compensate very much battery life to exchange for a far much better performance.

[DAZA Posted Mar 29th 2009 3:30AM]

I agree but the reason why we Atom chips are so popular is because they're also dirt cheap. You're talking $262 here per 1000 units for the CPU alone. Some netbooks are only marginally more expensive than that.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 27th 2009 10:31PM]

Why is Intel still pumping out single-core Core processors? Aren't all low-powered machines using Atom anyway?

[rodneyha Posted Mar 27th 2009 10:42PM]

Someone please clarify this: The Core 2 Solo (1.4Ghz) would run better than the 1.66GHz N280? Please explain why. ~Thank you!

[cout Peter Posted Mar 27th 2009 11:03PM]

Well, it has 3MB of cache compared to 512KB (I think) in the Atom. It also has an 800MHz FSB compared to the 667MHz of the Atom. There are also other differences which I can't explain off the top of my head.

[RKN Posted Mar 27th 2009 11:21PM]

That Core 2 Solo will kick the Atom's ass straight to the moon.

[mac404 Posted Mar 28th 2009 3:40AM]

Because Atom is an in-order design that and a Core 2 Solo is out-of-order. It doesn't have to wait on memory to hand it information before it can do things, and it can do other things when there are memory stalls. For multimedia uses, the Core 2 Solo will be quite a bit faster (at least I'm pretty sure it will be).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution

If you really want to know more, I'd recommend any in-depth Atom article when it first came out (probably Anandtech, or similar).

[xxxsam Posted Mar 29th 2009 5:48PM]

Atom N280 apparently has TDP of 2W, so you're talking about more than doubling the power consumption to throw in a Core 2 Solo instead. Not really the right direction to move in for netbook chips, even if price weren't an issue.

[Spiraling Shape Posted Mar 27th 2009 11:03PM]

While we're clarifying things, when is Calpella coming out again? Never?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2009 12:12AM]

Calpella should be available in the second half of the year, maybe by Sept. or Oct. That is if it's not delayed until 2010 of course.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2009 1:52PM]

yep, Calpella should be available in the second half of Never.

[amranu Posted Mar 28th 2009 12:12AM]

Is Nehalem ever coming to laptops?

[CheesusCrust Posted Mar 28th 2009 12:49PM]

It will, but you have to give it time just like Core 2 Quad eventually came to laptops. They have to develop a low heat low power version first.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2009 2:13AM]

Nehalem EP aka Xeon 5500 gets released the same day (Mar 30).
Arguably the biggest jump in Server processors in 5+ years and Engadget hasn't said squat about it.
Instead its all over the story about some new processors only useful in the weak ass MBA and Adamo.

Someone get Josh's nose out of Fallon's ass and READ all the links I keep sending you.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2009 3:59AM]

Give me a E5520 and I will be an extremely happy camper.. It makes my Harpertown look like a toy. I want a Beckton though; I guess I will get that with USB 3.0 by the time it comes out.

[Leindurstit Posted Mar 28th 2009 7:39PM]

Son of a bitch, two days after I order a ThinkPad X200s with the SL9400 they come out with this SL9600...

[Luppers Posted Mar 28th 2009 8:02PM]

Welcome to last week Darren Murph..

Apparently if it's not Mac, you aren't interested.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2009 10:21PM]

Does this mean Macbook Pro refresh?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2009 12:23PM]

I'll hold out for the next cpu/gpu update on the thinkpad x301 :)

any minute now...