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Intel has introduced Oak Trail platform, for tablets and other fanless mobile devices. The platform consists of Atom Z650 and Z670 “Lincroft” microprocessors, built on 45nm technology, coupled with SM35 Express chipset, and supports several popular mobile operating systems, including Android, MeeGo and Windows.

Intel is expected to officially introduce three new Celeron desktop Sandy Bridge CPUs, in the third quarter of this year – the Celeron G440, G530 and G540 CPUs. The chips will not support Turbo Boost, Hyper Threading, AVX and AES-NI instructions or any other advanced Intel technology.

Intel will release at least four new Sandy Bridge Pentium CPUs: a Pentium G850 at 2.9GHz, a 2.8GHz Pentium G840, a 2.6GHz G620, and a 2.2GHz G620T.

Intel has released dual-core Sandy Bridge: Core i3-2100, Core i3-2100T, Core i3-2120, and Core i5-2390T processors for desktop, and Core i5-2520M, i5-2540M, Core i7-2620M, Core i7-2629M, i7-2649M, Core i5-2537M, Core i7-2617M and i7-2657M CPUs for laptops.

The recently unveiled Intel “Sandy Bridge” desktop-use quad-core processors are now available in the US. Customers can purchase the CPUs via Newegg, with prices ranging from $185 to $329.

Intel cut the pricing of six of its desktop and laptop processors.

The first aftermarket coolers supporting the new Socket LGA1156 Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors are now available. Here’s a list of LGA1156-compatible coolers that I found today: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 (RR-910-HTX3-GP) – $19.99, Tiger Direct Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (RR-B10-212P-GP) – $27.99, The Nerds Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME Rev.2 (AC-FPXT_REV2) – $44.99, xPCgear ZALMAN CNPS10X Extreme (CNPS10X Extreme) – $70.49, Newegg CoolJag Falcon II Low Profile (YCWA02A) – $41.99, Crazy PC Scythe Ninja Mini Rev. B (SCMNJ-1100) – $39.99, Heatsink Factory Scythe Zipang 2 (SCZP-2000) – $43.95, Anartik Scythe SHURIKEN Rev. B (SCSK-1100) – $34.99, Heatsink Factory Noctua NH-U12P SE2 (NH-U12P SE2) – $75.00, East Luna Starting today, you can also purchase the Socket LGA1156 Intel Core i5-750 and Core i7-860 CPUs.

I have replaced an old Athlon 64 X2 4200+ at 2.2GHz with the 6400+ in a Windows Vista desktop PC machine featuring the Asus M2N-E SLI motherboard, 2GB of 800MHz DDR2 memory, the Asus EAH3850 512MB video card, and a Cooler Master 620W power supply. The performance improvement after this upgrade is significant and goes up to 46 percent in some tests.