The company will also launch chips for new ultrathin laptops -- the Celeron SU2300 and Celeron 743 processors -- in September, according to the Digitimes report.

This will be the first time Nehalem-based chips will reach mainstream audiences, after being mainly reserved for expensive systems like servers and gaming PCs. Nehalem integrates a memory controller into a CPU and provides a faster pipe for the processor to communicate with system components like a graphics card and other chips. It also allows execution of two software threads simultaneously, so a system with four processor cores could run eight threads simultaneously for quicker application performance. The chips will be manufactured using the 45-nanometer process.

While the new Nehalem chips may be limited to desktops and laptops on the higher price band, affordably priced systems could see new chips when Intel switches to the 32-nm process. The 32-nm chips will integrate a graphics processor and CPU in one chip, which could boost graphics performance while drawing less power than existing processors.