Intel launches New Chips…delay your purchase of Computers for a month and Check out HCL Info at Rs 160 and Zenith Computers at Rs 27…Investing Theme being Computer Scrips
Intel has advertised today the launch of new Chips….i3,i5 and i7
Currently Computers and Laptops and Netbooks are powered by Intel Core 2 Duo or an Atom processor
By month end we can expect all the major Computer Brands to launch Computers with the New Chips…so delay your purchase till then….you’ll get the new chips or some fabulous deals on the Computers with the earlier Chips
The New series of Chips has the following advantages
nearly doubles the processing power
shrinks the size of Components inside the Chip by nearly 30% thereby reducing the chip size,power consumption and heat emission
Transistors or Switches are 32 nanometer in size compared to the current 45 nanometer….a nanometer is one billionth of a meter
Each New Chip will hold 440 million switches against the current 290 million
The Memory and Graphic Controllers,which were earlier housed in chips adjacent to the main processor,will now be withing the Main Chip itself
The shrinkage in size of Components allows the Laptop to be slimmer by another Inch
The operating speeds will be maintained within 1 to 3.7 gigahertz
There will be no immediate price impact as the New Series are priced more or less at same levels as the Core 2 Duo Processor,especially for desktops…For the New Chips For Laptops the price is a little higher…A 32 nanometer i3 Chip laptop will be priced at Rs 35000
The Laptop Chip’s Clock Speed will be 2.1 GHz….This speed is turbo boosted by 10% to 110% in the i5 Series chips which will cost Rs 2300 more than the i3 series…Both i3 and i5 laptop chips will consume 35 Watts while the high end i7 will consume 18 to 35 watts