Se desvelan las especificaciones y los precios del Core i5

The first details regarding Intel's Core i5 U has surfaced.

The Core i5 is based on a new socket design, socket LGA 1156, making them incompatible with current Core i7 X58 motherboards.

Set for release in October, the first Core i5 Us to hit the market will be a trio of quad-core processors and based on the Lynnfield core, using 45nm fabrication process. Core i5 Us HyperThreading technology. The new platform s dual channel DDR3-1066 and DDR3-1333 modules. It features 8 MB of L3 cache, and s TurboBoost technology.

The first Core i5 Us to hit the market will have clock frequencies of 2.66 GHz, 2.80 GHz, and 2.93 GHz and priced respectively $196, $284, and $562.