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Intel Launches Low Cost Chips

Posted by timothy on from the more-cheaper-is-better dept.

schliz writes "Intel has announced a new quad core and dual-core processor at the bottom end of its price and specification range and a new Celeron chip. The Q8200 is a 2.33-GHz quad-core chip with 4Mb of level-2 cache, the lowest of any quad-core processor."

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  1. Low cache by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny

    This means that the speed of the chip is reduced as it canâ(TM)t handle as many processes as processors with a larger cache.

    hmm, pretty technical stuff...

  2. This tech site sucks. by CyberBill · · Score: 4, Informative

    The new processor is the second cheapest in Intelâ(TM)s quad core range and is priced at US$224 per thousand.

    Thats supposed to be "US$224 each in quantities of one thousand", not $224 per thousand, implying they each cost 22.4 cents.

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    -Bill
  3. Re:This is the stupidest launch ever. by yeremein · · Score: 4, Informative

    Q8200 is a 45nm chip vs. the 65nm Q6600, so it comes with lower power consumption and allegedly slightly better IPC than the older core--so it should perform about the same.

    The real complaint about the Q8200 is that it's missing the virtualization technology that's present in the Q6600 and the Q9000-series.