Digitimes reveals Intel's roadmap for MacBook Pro/Air-class chips - January launch

Sun, 11/15/2009 - 7:32am — Seth Weintraub
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Digitimes, this weekend, released a timetable for Intel's high-end mobile processor lineup over the next few quarters.  Possible MacBook Pro and MacBook Air processor successors include 35W 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs running at up to 2.26GHz (2.53GHz in single-core Turbo Boost).  Remember that even though the cycles/second are fewer in these chips, the speed improves dramatically, as seen in Apple's new iMac lineup.

On Thursday, Intel plans to launch four 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs (Calpella platform), the Core i5-520M, Core i5-430M, Core i3-350M and Core i3-330M, in the first half of January 2010 for the mainstream notebook segment, according to sources from notebook players. The Intel Core i5-430M runs at a clock speed of 2.26GHz, but with Intel's Turbo Boost technology, it can run up to 2.53GHz for a single core. The Intel Core i3-350M also runs at 2.26GHz, but does not support Turbo Boost technology; Intel Core i3-330M runs at 2.13GHz and also does not support Turbo Boost technology. Core i5 CPUs will feature a graphics clock that runs at a base speed of 500MHz but can also run at speeds up to 766MHz. The Core i3 also runs at 500MHz but can also run at speeds up to 667MHz. Both series support DDR3 memory up to 1066MHz and feature 3MB L3 Cache with a TDP of 35W. 

Digitimes also released an ultra-low power processor scorecard this week, with even lower power processors slated for 1H10.  These Core i7 640UM processors use only 18W of power, yet can clock up to 2.26GHz.  That is some serious performance/watt - which we know sjobs luvs.

 

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one of these in the macbook

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one of these in the macbook air + 4 gb of ram and it would be the perfect "go-everywhere-and-take-with-you" device

4gb of memory? Heck, these

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4gb of memory? Heck, these new i5 processors have a 38 line physical address bus - they support 256 gb of memory. I3 has a 34 line bus supporting 64 gb. A 4 gb machine just isn't going to cut it in the next couple years.

4 GB is more than usual

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MacAir is use for convenience not for movie editor. So what the heck you use with macbookAir 64 GB, but if they give me more than 4 GB it will be much better.

Arrandale

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I doubt these processors are destine for the high end.  Intel just released their quad-core mobile Clarksfield.  I would expect the Macbook Pro to use the quad core on the high end 15 & 17" and the low end 13 & 15 and MacBook to use Arrandale.  One of the big changes with Arrandale is bringing the GPU onto the same die so it make no sense to use the 9400M tied with Arrandale.  Look forward to the Spring releases.

Lol, it had better not be

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Lol, it had better not be some crappy Intel only GPU in the new Macbook Pros. and 9400m is getting old Apple.  I hope there's an update to graphics as well as CPU in the lowest end graphics for Macbook Pros.

PLEASE NEW MACBOOK PROS - ASAP!

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I just want Apple to make a killer MBP for January, I'm dying for something significantly better than the 3.06 dual core. 

Intel GPU

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I doubt Intels built in GPU in the Arrandale architecture will be as powerful as a descrete GPU such as the 9400M. So that might be enough for Apple to drop it all together.

waiting

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I have been waiting or a upgrade to he MBP. I would like to see the 17" with i7 quad core or more.

 

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