Intel have officially announced their latest ultra-low voltage (ULV) Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors, which will be finding their way into ultraportable notebooks in the not-too-distant future. The chips all use 32nm Nehalem processes and that adds up to performance gains and power frugality: Intel reckon up to 32-percent more grunt and up to 15-percent less battery consumption compared to existing chips.
There’s also support for Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost on select models across the range. TDP across the range is just 17W, and certain CPUs can be paired with Intel HD Graphics.
Already Acer, ASUS, Lenovo and MSI are signed up to produce notebooks based on the new ULV processors, and Intel expect over 40 models to begin to debut in June 2010. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the list also includes the rumored Alienware M11x upgrade, tipped this weekend.