Just like Intel controls the netbook market with its Atom processors it is starting to get a firm hold of the new ultrathin segment that is moving in. Intel’s power efficient CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) platform enables PC builders to develop thin notebooks without having to charge tons of money. The processors of the CULV platform offers a lot more performance than Intel’s Atom processors but without HyperThreading the multithreading performance suffers a bit.
Therefore it becomes extra interesting when two new additions to the CULV family appears, where both processors sports dual cores. Intel Celeron 740 and SU2300 are their names and both use 800MHz FSB and 1MB L2 cache. The former operates at 1.3GHz while SU2300 has 1.2GHz clock frequency.
The relatively low clock frequencies makes it possible for Intel to keep the TDP at only 10W, which fits with Intel’s entry models of the CULV platform. Earlier, the dual-core CULV processors have been for the performance segment only and thus cost a lot more.
Lenovo IdeaPad U350 is built on CULV
At the same time, Intel is said to lower prices of the entry models of the CULV program soon, which should result in noticeable price cuts of notebooks using these processors. Of course, none of this has been confirmed by Intel.
