14 DAY TRIAL // Intel Broadwell notebooks and tablets are coming our way in the upcoming months. Before the holiday season begins, we can already expect to be greeted by the first wave of products taking advantage of Core M processors.
We talked about a few of them and we even revealed the pricing specifications for some of such products, like the ASUS Zenbook UX305 and ASUS Transformer Book T300FA.
Anyway, Intel promised that more Broadwell models would be made available in 2015, so we can expect an avalanche of such products to make a debut in the next 12 months. But how about pricing?
How expensive will Intel Core M machines will be?
The folks over at DigiTimes have managed to put together a pricing manifest, which Intel and partners are expected to follow when selling these new machines.
According to the information, traditional entry-level notebooks with 10.1-inch to 17.3-inch form factor and non-touch capabilities will be sold for $199 – $599 / €159 – €478.
The second category is hybrid 2-in-1 machines which will become available for $349 – $999 / €278 – €798, while high-performance notebooks with form factors between 14- and 17-inch inches will sky rocket somewhere around the $1,500 / €1,198 margin.
Pricing specifications seem quite similar to those of Haswell notebooks, which will probably see significant price drops for obvious reasons.
Why pay the same price for a notebook with last year’s architecture when you can pick up a device with the brand new Broadwell platform?
As the holiday season approaches us at a fast pace, prepare to see a lot of models get their price cuts, in anticipation of the first-wave of Broadwell notebooks.
Not all device makers have been shift enough to pick up the Broadwell platform, but some of them have.
For example, Asian sources pinpoint to Lenovo and ASUS that have been quick to implement the new standard into their products, hoping to attract demand in the busy months that will follow.
More Broadwell chips will follow in 2015
Core M chips (or Broadwell Y) have already entered mass shipments since September. On the other hand, the Intel Broadwell U series will enter mass production in January 2015 with shipments scheduled to begin in Q3 2015.
The high-end Broadwell H family will become commercially available in Q3 2015. After Broadwell, Intel is expected to move further along and release the 14nm Skylake series which should enter mass production in Q3 2014. The 10nm Skymont is expected to follow the footsteps of Skylake.