Mysterious 2.8GHz Core Celeron Discovered

Dusan from InsideHW inadvertently stumbled upon an unreleased Celeron processor based on the Core architecture, which clocks in at 2.8GHz and has a 14x multiplier. The author of the article believes that it might be an upcoming processor, but I am highly doubtful. Core processors with a 2.8GHz frequency are very high-end, and the 6 – 14 multiplier is just mind blowing, but required thanks to the 800MHz FSB. Compare this chip to the current 420/430/440 Celerons that clock in at 1.6GHz – 2.0GHz.

This is a confusing chip in every regard. Despite it’s high frequency, it’s performance would still fall short when compared to a C2D at the same frequency, due to lack of overall L2 cache. Will this chip ever see the light of day? It’s not likely, but then again, why does it exist at all? One thing is for sure, this is one Celeron that would be incredibly fun to play with.

What the name of this series will be is unknown to this point, but we suppose that they will be marked “Celeron E1XXX” or perhaps belong to the 4XX series of CPUs that already made quite a fuss. This Intel move also marks complete retirement of the NetBurst technology through complete “refreshment” of the offer.

Source: InsideHW