Core i7-3667U and i5-3427U Are Intel’s 2012 Ultrabook CPUs

For Intel, 2012 will mark the introduction of its 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture and among all the CPU models to be included in this series two particularly interesting chips are the Core i7-3667U and i5-3427U.

These are of course destined to be used in Ultrabooks and as such have a TDP of just 17W making them highly efficient in terms of power consumption.

But outside of their low TDP, the two U-Series Ivy Bridge chips also have some other tricks up their sleeves such as an Intel HD 4000 built-in GPU, two computing cores with Hyper-Threading support as well as Turbo Boost support.

Furthermore, as VR-Zone reports even their operating clocks are set at an impressive 2.0 and 1.8 GHz with Turbo Boost raising these frequencies up to 3.2GHz and respectively 2.8GHz.

The only downside is that we’ll have to wait until May of 2012 or so to get our hands on an Ultrabook sporting one of these two mobile powerhouses.

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