Intel, the world's largest chip maker, released on Monday its first 64-bit Celeron processor, designed for the value PC market.

The company's Celeron D 351, an heir-apparent to its popular current Celeron D S775 processor series already on the market, boosts a 64-bit processing technology.

The Celeron D 351 features 256KB of advanced memory cache, a 533MHz system bus for faster data transfers, a processor speed of 3.20GHz and hardware support that complements Microsoft Windows Service Pack 2.

Intel claims Celeron D 351 will let consumers surf the Web, play basic games, e-mail, creating word processing documents and track home finances more efficiently than before.

Intel also announced the availability of Celeron D 350, a chip that also runs at speeds of 3.20GHz with a 256KB of cache and a 533MHz system bus but dose not support 64-bit computing.

The Celeron D 350 and D 351 are priced at from 73 to 127 dollars apiece in 1,000 quantities.

Source: Xinhua