With low power computers such as the Eee PC and the Wind PC becoming popular, Intel wants to field some lower power consumption quad core processors to enable high-performance small factor systems with reasonable power consumptions

According to Digitimes, Intel will introduce three 65W TDP quad core processors mid-January 2009 to address this market:

• $245 Core 2 Quad Q8200s at 2.33GHz with 4MB of L2 cache
• $320 Core 2 Quad Q9400s at 2.66GHz with 6MB of L2 cache
• $369 Core 2 Quad Q9550s at 2.83GHz with 12MB of L2 cache

(prices above are in 1000 unit OEM quantities)

Apparently Apple, Acer, HP and Dell are planning to launch products with the new processors.