All of them are dual-core chips without Hyper-Threading technology

Oct 24, 2013 09:57 GMT  ·  By

There's always room for newer and better ultra-low power microprocessors, especially of the budget variety, so the four chips that Intel will supposedly release next year should see good business.

They are the Celeron 2957U, Celeron 2981U, Pentium 3558U and Pentium 3561Y, all of which support Wireless Display and come in BGA packages (not removable from socket).

All four processors have 2 cores, 2 threads (no Hyper-Threading), 2 MB L3 cache memory and DDR3-1600 memory support.

The Celeron 2957U runs at 1.4 GHz. The Celeron 2981U is the same but with a speed of 1.6 GHz. Pentium 3558U is a 1.7 GHz chip, but otherwise shares the same similarities.

All three have 200 MHz / 1000 MHz HD graphics and 15W TDP.

That leaves the Pentium 3561Y, a 1.2 GHz low-power chip with 200 MHz / 850 MHz graphics and 11.5W TDP.