Chinese website HKEPC reports that Intel will launch two Core 2 Solo mobile chips in the third quarter of next year. The two chips will be low-voltage models dubbed Core 2 Solo U2100 and U2200. The U2100 model will run at 1.06GHz, while the faster U2200 chip will be clocked at 1.2GHz. Both processors will have 1MB of cache, a 533MHz front-side bus, and a thermal rating of just 5W. HKEPC says the two chips will also be joined by a Celeron M 523 ULV, which will have the same FSB and thermal rating as the Core 2 Solos, but come clocked at just 933MHz.

In other news, Intel has silently improved its Core 2 Duo line-up. The company recently issued a paper (PCN 106853-00) which calls for a new revision of Conroes that sell under the name Core 2 Duo E6300 and E6400, that is, the entry level models with 2MB of L2 cache. New revisions are also coming for Xeons 3040 and 3050 and yet unannounced Pentium E4000 series (low-cost CPUs with 800MHz FSB). Intel marked this new revision as L2, probably referring to Low Power 2. This comes as an answer to AMD's Brisbane processors, which consume only seven and a half watts in idle mode and 65W when fully loaded. As a contrast, Core 2 Duo eats up 22 Watts while doing nothing and 65W when working under full load. With the new revision, power consumption in idle state (C1E) goes down to 12W. The only ways to detect a new revision are either looking for product code SL9TA instead of SL9SA or to look for CPUID marked 6F2 instead of 6F6 - the current ones.