Intel has reportedly unveiled its plans to release more Core 2 Duo Processors to its customers in Q3 2007, following the already announced E6850, E6750 and E6650 Intel Core 2 Duo chips (1333MHz FSB). Citing industry sources, the web-site hkepc.com reports that Intel will also release Core 2 Duo E6390 in Q3 2007, the E4200 and the E4400 in Q2 2007. Core 2 Duo E6390 targets the market of E6300 and E6400, and the two members from Core 2 Duo E4000 family are designed to replace the Netburst Pentium D.

The Core 2 Duo E6390 is actually the value version of Core 2 Duo E6300 and E6400. With the same speed of Core 2 Duo E6400 at 2.13GHz, and also 2MB L2 Cache and 1066MHz FSB, everything is the same in Core 2 Duo E6390, except the availability of Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) and vPRO Technology. These functions are disabled in Core 2 Duo E6390.

On the other side, the E4200 and E4400 are running at 1.6GHz and 2GHz respectively, and feature a 2MB L2 Cache and 1066MHz FSB.