January 3, 2010 Intel plans to formally present its first 32nm desktop processors. By the production of finished processors Clarkdale, a total manufacturer is going to present three models of Core i5 650, 660 and 670, with frequencies of 3.2GHz, 3.33GGts and 3.46GGts respectively. Presumably, their prices are in large wholesale lots are respectively $ 176, $ 196 and $ 284.

In other processors, Intel Core i3 Clarkdale will be 530 and 540, covering the range of $ 123-150. Processors Core i3 will not support the regime Turbo. Also expected to produce low-cost Pentium G6950, with the price of $ 84 in wholesale consignments of the party, non-turbo, with HyperTreading L3 cache and not more than 1MB. Timing of these processors is still not known for certain.

All processors Clarkdale on the chip embedded graphics core, in addition, they will support the socket LGA1156, which is currently the prerogative of processors Lynnfield. Branding, despite all the efforts of Intel, rather messy and is further complicated by the emergence of a series of Core i5 7xx, quad Lynnfield. Could produce Bloomfield processors called Core i7, processors Lynnfield as Core i5 and processors Clarkdale as Core i3, but Intel does not want to use a similar naming scheme.

Among the models that are being prepared for release, enters the processor Core i5 661. The only difference between this processor and Core i5 660 is to increase the frequency of IGP.

After the introduction of the Core i5/i3 (Clarkdale) the manufacturer intends gradually to effectively withdraw from the market all the products in Core 2. Company AMD is going to oppose dual-core and quad-core models Clarkdale. This will be an interesting battle. At that time, as Intel dominates the high-performance and expensive solutions, AMD processors offer better price / performance in the segment with price below $ 200. Perhaps the situation in this segment will change after the emergence of Clarkdale. It will be interesting to see the duel of two much overclocked cores Intel, made by the powerful architecture, Westmere, and four cores on an old architecture AMD K10. One thing navernyaka6 Clarkdale processors will consume much less energy, and their production will be cheaper for Intel. Unfortunately for AMD, it still has a long way before the processors on the architecture of the next generation of Bulldozer.