Desktop delivery
There were no less than 11 new products or price drops introduced to Intel's processor price list yesterday.
These included new top-end CPUs for the (non-extreme) Core i7 and Core i5 families and the near halving of the price of the Core i7-870. There's also a new low-power version of the 870 - the 870S.
Elsewhere we have a couple of additions to the Atom family, targeted at small form-factor desktops - or nettops as Intel likes to call them.
AMD is finally gearing up to the launch of its ‘fusion' APUs, which any industry neutral will hope give Intel a run for its money in the mobile computing space.
While AMD is focused on that, Intel may be looking to consolidate its position in the desktop market - a traditional strength for AMD.
| Name | Cache (MB) | Cores | Threads | Frequency (GHz) | Process (nm) | New price ($) | Old price ($) | Change (%) |
| i7-970 | 12 (L3) | 6 | 12 | 3,20 (6.40 GT/s QPI) | 32 | 885 | - | - |
| i7-870 | 8 (L3) | 4 | 8 | 2.93 | 45 | 294 | 562 | -48 |
| i5-760 | 8 (L3) | 4 | 4 | 2.80 | 45 | 205 | - | - |
| i3-540 | 4 (L3) | 2 | 4 | 3.06 | 32 | 117 | 133 | -12 |
| i7-870S | 8 (L2) | 4 | 8 | 2.66 | 45 | 351 | - | - |
| E6600 | 2 (L2) | 2 | 2 | 3.06 | 45 | 75 | 84 | -11 |
| E5500 | 2 (L2) | 2 | 2 | 2.80 | 45 | 64 | 75 | -15 |
| D525 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1.80 | 45 | 63 | - | - |
| D425 | 0.5 | 1 | 2 | 1.80 | 45 | 42 | - | - |
| i7-640UM | 4 (L2) | 2 | 4 | 1.20 | 32 | 289 | 305 | -5 |
| X3470 | 8 (L2) | 4 | 8 | 2.93 (95W) | 45 | 328 | 589 | -44 |
