Intel Expands Ivy Bridge Lineup with Budget Chips

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Budget buyers can now cross Ivy Bridge for around $42.

Volume production of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors began way back in the third quarter of 2011, with dual-core and quad-core parts launching at the end of April, 2012. Nine months after launch, Intel has decided to stretch its 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture into lower end processor families, adding seven new parts to its Celeron and Pentium lines, along with another Core processor for good measure.
There are three new Celeron processors built around Ivy Bridge. They include:

• Celeron G1610: 2.6GHz, 2MB L3 cache, 650MHz/1050MHz GPU, 55W, $42
• Celeron G1610T: 2.3GHz, 2MB L3 cache, 650MHz/1050MHz GPU, 35W, $42
• Celeron G1620: 2.7Ghz, 2MB L3 cache, 650MHz/1050MHz GPU, 55W, $52

All three are dual-core chips, none of which support Hyper-Threading. Flanking these parts are four Pentium-class Ivy Bridge CPUs:

• Pentium G2010: 2.8GHz, 3MB L3 cache, 650MHz/1050MHz GPU, 55W, $64
• Pentium G2020: 2.9GHz, 3MB L3 cache, 650MHz/1050MHz GPU, 55W, $64
• Pentium G2020T: 2.5GHz, 3MB L3 cache, 650MHz/1050MHz GPU, 35W, $64
• Pentium G2030: 3.2GHz, 3MB L3 cache, 55W, $86

Intel also introduced a Core i3 3210 part with two cores, four threads, a 3.2GHz clockspeed, 3MB of L3 cache, Intel HD 2500 Graphics (650MHz/1050MHz), and 55W TDP for $117.
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