Intel plans yet another reinforcement to
its Ultra low voltage generation of Arrandale CPUs. We still have to see Core
i5 520UM, Core i5 540UM as well as Core i7 620UM and Core i7 640UM, all supposed
to stay under 18W TDP, and Intel plans to introduce one, a bit faster version
simply called Core i7 660UM.
This new CPU is based on the 32nm Arrandale
dual-core that is capable of supporting four threads and it is clocked at a quite
modest 1.33GHz. This is not bad for a CPU that has graphics and most of the
chipset on the same socket. The best part, however, is that it will be able to
overclock all the way to 2.4GHz.
We are quite sure that with this clock it will dissipate more than 18W, but this
will be controlled by notebook software of user itself. The graphics base
frequency will be 166MHz, but it will jump to 500MHz when needed and DDR3 memory
will work at 800MHz.
The CPU has 4MB of cache and comes in BGA
package. The launch date is Q3 2010 and this CPU is set to replace Core i7
640UM in Intel’s top end of Ultra Thin performance market.
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Core i7 660UM comes in Q3 2010
18W, 1.33GHz OC's to 2.4GHz