New Intel Processors for Notebooks - Plans for 2009

On the 28th of December, Intel plans to present 5 new processor platform Montevina: Core 2 Quad Q9000 (2.0GGts), Core 2 Duo T9800 (2.93GGts), T9550 (2.66GGts), P9600 (2.66GGts), P8700 (2.53GGts). Processors will cost $348, $530, $316, $348 and $241 respectively. Thus, Q9000 will be the cheapest Quad processor for mobile platforms.

Also, there will be two high-speed dual-core processors T9900 (3.06GGts) and P8800 (2.66GGts) for the platform ‘Montevina Refresh’. They will appear on the market in the second quarter, before the release of Clarksfield processors, based on Nehalem core, which will be part of the new platform Calpella. Its release is scheduled for the third quarter of 2009.

The two 65nm Celeron processors based on the Merom core, T1700 and T1600 will be available for purchase on the 7th of December at a price of $86 and $80 respectively. Celeron processors based on 45nm Penryn core for the “Montevina Refresh” platform will appear in the third quarter of the next year.
On January, the 18th, 2009 the prices of the Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GGts) and the Celeron 585 processors will be reduced to $ 32 and $ 37 respectively.

Source: New Intel processors for notebooks: plans for 2009