Intel launches new Core i5 and i7 Processors

Intel Philippines yesterday unveiled a number of new processors under its Core i5 and Core i7 brands. Most interesting feature is the Turbo Boost that automatically overclocks the CPU when you need more juice.

Intel introduced the Core i7 920/940 last year but those were intended for hardcore gamers and enthusiasts. The new ones they’re bringing in is an attempt to make it more mainstream and affordable. But unlike the i7 900 series which is Socket LG1366, the Core i7 800 series is on another Socket LG1156.

core i5 750

Most interesting is the Turbo Boost technology — a capability of the CPU to add extra horsepower when it is needed. For example, a 2.66GHz Core i5 750 can go up to 3.2GHz clockspeed. However, HT (hyper-threading) has been disabled on the i5.

core i5

The Core i7 800 series comes in 2 clock speeds and has HT enabled — i7-860 @ 2.8GHz and the i7-870 @ 2.93GHz. With Turbo Boost, the 2.93GHz i7-870 can go up to 3.6GHz.

There’s no final price yet but OEMs who attended the the launching say that the Core i5 750 will cost somewhere between Php10k to Php11k while the i7-860 could be between Php15k to Php16k.

I asked Intel Philippines President Rickey Banaag if this will mean they’re shelving the Core 2 Quad since the i5 and i7 are also 4 cores. He says no and Intel will keep them separate for market segmentation. In short, expect the prices of Core 2 Quads to go down in the next couple of months.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

16 Comments

Vatch says:

15 years ago

I love it.
Its so fast talaga ng Tech mag evolve ngayun ..
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Reel Advice says:

15 years ago

Hm…i’ll wait for next year! Baka may octacore na! :P juicy!
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Vance says:

15 years ago

Dell Studio XPS 8000 is currently using this processors already..

At least we still have the icore7 9 series hehe..

The i5 and i7 The processors have 8mb cache..
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Paul says:

15 years ago

Intel’s new P55 design finally catches up to AMD architecture with the removal of the northbridge and direct lanes to the CPU from the ram. This should make for faster gaming and general performance increases.

I worry that AMD is becoming a niche player in the low end market leavign Intel a practical monopoly for high end desktop systems. We had this once upon a time and it was bad. When AMD released Athlon64, the market was competitive and we beiniftted with low prices for high performance.

Now we are back to an Intel monopoly and prices are sky high again. Enthusiast Intel P* based motherboards go for upwards of PHP12000 these days. That’s crazy and quad core anything is over php15000. When there was competition, high end Nvidia nforce4 based boards were half the price and cutting edge dual core cpus 1/3 the price.

Intel is a bad company to have a monopoly and the new “consumer line” (supposed to be affordable) i5 prices at over php10000 for a CPU prove my point.

I hope we are not gop
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Adrian says:

15 years ago

wow ang saya naman nyan.
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mcgyverphil says:

15 years ago

ok fine for us!! we will benifited from this new processor!! price of core 2 and quad core will go down, thanks intel, keep on launching your latest processor
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Prokopio Dakuikoi says:

15 years ago

Hi Yuga,

Intel Philippines will shutdown its Cavite operations next month right? Tsk Tsk.
Unemployment rate will get worse.
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Vance says:

15 years ago

By the way… I5 could be cheap but…. You still have to buy a new mobo, and new rams..
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accessd says:

15 years ago

RIP AMD
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Rome says:

15 years ago

@Reel Advice: or maybe next year nonacore na!! (read:nana-core as in wla na! Hahahaah!) :D
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victor says:

15 years ago

maganda kaya magPACMAN dito? Intel has m0n0poly again. The rich getting richer.
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aiffen says:

15 years ago

technology is really developing fast, well this is nothing compared to the prawns technology in d9, “human technology is a waste” -christopher hehe
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Jhay says:

15 years ago

At least Core 2 prices would go down, just in time for Christmas! :D
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Kenneth says:

15 years ago

Woah, hopefully there’s another price-markdown this season! :-)
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parametricbot says:

15 years ago

plano kong buy ng netbook with built-in 3g capability. will it work in the philippines, globe 3g?
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jm says:

15 years ago

thanks mr. abe..
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