A Chinese site called HKEPC has some details they are showing about the upcoming Intel 1333MHz FSB Conroe CPUs. Three parts are scheduled for a Q3 2007 release and are called the E6540, E6550 and the E6750. All CPUs share the same FSB speed and the E6540 and E6550 have 2.33GHz clock speeds with the E6750 running 2.6GHz. The Inquirer says pricing for the E6550 is set at $163 with the E6750 coming in at a mere $183. Each of the processors detailed above, will come coupled with a 4MB L2 cache, and have two cores each. The difference in the E6540 and the E6550 is that the E6540 cuts the new Intel Trust Execution Technology and while its price hasn't been announced it should be cheaper than the more equipped E6550. At the top of the list is the E6850, which keeps to a 65W TDP, but runs at 3GHz, and is priced at a massively competitive $266 as I reported yesterday

In related news, Intel is looking to please the performance per watt crowd, particularly in datacenter environments, with this week's shipment of their new low-power quad-core Xeon. The new chip, despite having four cores, has a peak TDP of a mere 50 watts. In comparison, many single core mobile processors have a TDP as high as 35W. This is a huge improvement, not only over their first line of quad cores, but also over their CPUs over the past few years. Their existing quad cores need as much as 120W. With configurations like that, a server could have eight cores running on less power than it took two just a year ago!