New Intel Core i5 Coming To A Laptop Near You

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Intel’s Core i3 and i5 chips have been popular in notebooks from multiple manufacturers, and now Intel is iterating on that success by coming out with a new variant of the Core i5. It’ll be dubbed the Core i5-580M and will be replacing the -540M chip that’s currently on the market.

The new clockspeed on the -580M will be a reported 2.66GHz while the current model (-540M) has a reported clockspeed of 2.53Ghz. Likewise, the Intel TurboBoost will ram up to 3.33Ghz while the older chip only went up to 3.06Ghz.

Graphics are important. The base graphics core on the chip will spin at 500MHz, but can overclock to 766MHz when needed. It’ll be based on the Arrandale 32nm chips with the 45nm graphics core. It will have two-cores, but four-threaded cores and will have a 3MB of L3 cache, too.

For power consumption, the TDP on this chip will stand in at 35W. Fudzilla actually makes a great point – the only difference between the current Core i7 620M and the specs for this upcoming Core i5 580M is that the L3 cache is 4MB on the Core i7, while its only 3MB on the i5. And Intel probably will charge $100 more for the Core i7. Nice work, if you can get it. It’s possible that the low-end Core i7 chip is getting a refresh too from Intel, though.

Sources on the web expect the new Core i5-580M to start showing up in new laptops around Q4 2010.