It’s not the first time we hear about Intel’s upcoming Diamondville processor. A budget processor which will be the heart of Intel’s coming mobile and supercheap platform. Diamondville will power a lot of the next generation ultraportables and now it seems that the processor may appear sooner than expected. According to HKEPC, Intel will launch the first Diamondville processors in Q2, moved up from Q3 which previous stories have suggested.
The first addition to the Diamondville family will Celeron 230 and Celeron 270. The former is a desktop processor and the latter a mobile one. They’re close to identical with clock frequencies of 1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB and 512KB L2 cache. They one physical core, but will also sport a new version of HyperThreading, which should significantly improve performance in multithreaded environments.
The power consumption of the Diamondville processors is as low as 4W, which should fit perfectly with the next generation of budget notebooks, or such.
The first dual-core Diamondville processor will be called Celeron 300 and is expected in Q3. But only desktop then as the power consumption will be too high for the mobile Intel Basic PC Platform.
