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Two New Intel Celeron CPUs in May Arrive Next Week

Although Intel has managed to replace most of the mobileWestmere processor with a chip that is built on Sandy Bridgearchitecture, there are still some out there Celeron CPUs based on the Penryn core of older, so the Santa Clara chip giant is planning to release a Celeron 787 and 857 chips to take place the secondlast model.

Both ultra-low voltage processor (ULV) parts, which means thattheir thermal design power is rated at 17W expected.

As a result, their operating frequency should be reduced to levels that barely exceed the 1GHz mark, while the standard integratedgraphics core clock speed is set at 350MHz.

Starting with a more powerful option, Celeron 857, it will includedual-core processor operating at 1.2 GHz, 2MB Level 3 cachememory and dual-channel memory controller that supports speedsup to 1333MHz DDR3.

On-chip graphics unit includes only the most basic features (lack ofsupport even ClearVideo), and it is clocked at 350MHz on normaloperating conditions, while the maximum speed of the turbo whichis set at 1GHz.

Graphic basis of the same operating frequency will also be usedfor the Celeron 787, but the maximum speed of the turbo is limited to 950MHz.

In addition, Celeron 787 includes only a single processing core isclocked 1.3GHz and only 1MB of Level 3 cache.

As it happens with all others based on Sandy Bridge launched byIntel's Celeron, 787 and 857 support a set of basic features, such as the Intel 64 and virtualization, while more advancedtechnologies such as Turbo Boost or hyperthreading disabled.

Both ULV Celeron is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2011.There is no firm release date announced, but one source quotedby the CPU-World stated that it may begin as soon as next week.