Intel is working on 7W Ivy Bridge processors

According to presentation material released via a Chinese website, Intel would not wait for its Haswell-generation processors to release products with a TDP of less than 10W. New Ivy Bridge chips would have a tdp of 7W.

During the Intel Developer Forum this fall, Intel, through Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of the PC client division, already announced that it was working on the extremely frugal mobile processors. According to his presentation, however, the most economical Ivy Bridge processors would still get a TDP of 10W, although the company already gave the hint that that could be less. In the meantime, a presentation sheet published by the Chinese VR-Zone to turn out that the Ivy Bridge processors would get a TDP of up to 7W.

Contrary to expectations, the extremely frugal Ivy Bridge processors would be released under the full range that Intel now carries: Pentiums, Core i3s, i5s and i7s with the 7W TDP would appear. The economical chips are given the suffix Y after their name and have a standard clock speed that remains well below 2GHz. That 7W is only feasible if the chips are specially configured for it: the nominal tdp of the processors would be 10W or 13W. Intel calls those low TDP conditions SDP, short for Scenario Design Power.

The frugal processors could not only be used in new generations of very flat ultrabooks, but also bring considerable computing power to tablets. The Ivy Bridge Y processors should be released in the first half of 2013; followed by Haswell chips that would get an even lower tdp.