Intel said to be prepping 1.46GHz Core i7 ULV processor for this Fall
By Donald Melanson 
posted April 28th 2010 3:53PM
posted April 28th 2010 3:53PM
There's already been some rumors circulating that Intel would be rolling out a 1.33GHz Core i7 ULV processor this summer, and it now looks like that will be followed by an even faster low-voltage processor later in the Fall. That's when, according to Fudzilla, Intel will be launching a 1.46GHz Core i7 680UM processor, which reportedly has the same 18W TDP rating and 4MB of cache as its slower counterpart, and can clock all the way up to 2.53GHz in Turbo Boost mode. Unfortunately, there's not so much as a hint of pricing or any actual laptops that will use the processor, and Intel itself is of course keeping quiet on the matter for the time being.
In terms of performance, is this even comparable to a regular C2D?
@Outsider i7 tends to beat C2D by about 30%, so this should be comparable to a 1.46ghz*1.3 = 1.898ghz Core 2 when not turboing. When it turbos, it should blow away all but the fastest desktop Core 2s.
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Can someone explain to me what the iX (i7, i5, i3) means? Because I thought i7 was reserved for the high-end, power sucking products, not the low-end, power friendly ones.
@KupoCheer
This isn't a low end product. It's lower speed, but ULV parts have to be binned just like Extreme Edition chips do.
the 640UM retails for over $300, I expect this will cost more than that.
1.46GHz?? I'm a little lost, is it basically quad core for netbooks?
@Plazmic Flame
It's a ULV dual core. Think 2-4x the performance of an Atom netbook with about 90% of the battery life.
The trade off is the chip alone costs as much as that netbook.
"2-4x" is an understatement. In terms of flops the atoms have trouble breaking 3 gflops while the low-mid-end (not ULV) Core i3 330M can do 17. Even though the i7 in the article is ULV I expect the gflop number to be higher than my i3 example.
Intel atoms are extremely uneffective but of course makes up for it in power consumption and price.
it is a dual core with Hyper trading so you have 4 cores.
Could somebody please explain to me what 1.33Ghz means? I mean, my core2duo is twice of that and I remember a very very old engadget post from like 2004 or so when they reported that intel found a way that within a few years we would see processors at the terrahertz scale. I'm slightly confused with all of this and why there aren't any processors at that level yet. Thanks!
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@jappleng
This chip uses less than half the power of your c2d, and it includes the GPU.
If you want fast, don't buy an ultra low voltage chip.
You're misremembering, Intel was talking about "tera-scale" computing, not terahertz CPUs.
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/Tera-Scale/1421.htm
@jon Thank you!
ULV i7? Sounds like an oxymoron to me...
I'd be impressed if Intel could introduce a ULV mobile quad-core i7. That might make playing Crysis at hugh settings on a 13" laptop below 1" thick possible. But they'd have to keep the clock speed at around 1 GHz-1.2 GHz, which would be kind of be suited better for multimedia applications rather than gaming, since most current games don't utilize over 2-3 cores.
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The UM series are limited to 800 MHz memory bus, hopefully these come in the 1066 MHz LE series too.