New Intel Core i3, Core i5 mobile inbound, to be revealed January 7

  There it is ladies and gentleman, Intel has made it official. The mobile variant of Intel’s 32nm CPUs will be launching on the January 7 at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010 in Las Vegas. Codenamed Arrandale, the Core i3 and Core i5 CPUs are dual core CPUs with on package integrated graphics chipset. The new on package IGP should allow for switchable graphics using a discrete card helping offer a good battery life without sacrificing the graphics performance.

Below is a general overview of the Westmere 32nm CPUs which include the desktop variant Clarkdale and mobile variant Arrandale.

And here is how Nehalem is being distributed to all performance platforms:

Here are some fun facts about Intel’s 32nm technology.

A nanometer is so small that it takes a billion of them to make a meter. A billion is a huge number. A stack of a billion sheets of paper would be 100 km high. If you could walk a billion steps, you would go around the earth 20 times.

More than 4 million 32nm transistors could fit in the period at the end of this sentence.

The original transistor built by Bell Labs in 1947 was large enough that it was pieced together by hand. By contrast, more than 60 million 32nm transistors could fit onto the head of a pin.

A 32nm transistor can switch on and off over 300 billion times in one second. It would take you 4000 years to flick a light switch on and off that many times.

The price per transistor on a chip has dropped dramatically since Intel was founded in 1968. Some people estimate that the price of a transistor is now about the same as that of one printed newspaper character.

You can download this PDF for the complete list of fun facts.