During a recent conference call, Acer President and CEO Gianfranco Lanci told investors and hacks with nothing better to do that his outfit was not pleased with Intel's CULV chips.

While the new chips could provide up to 8 hours of battery life, Acer execs said that they just didn't live up to Acer's expectations in the performance department. Acer Chairman J.T. Wang went a step further, saying that new Intel CPUs will allow Acer to address the performance issues. "This time we should be able to do it right," Wang said.

Although Wang didn't go into specifics, it is clear he is referring to Intel's upcoming 32nm Arrandale parts. The new CPUs feature integrated graphics, and with Turbo overclocking it is possible to push them to 2.2GHz, all within an 18W thermal envelope.

Acer apparently told Intel that it was concerned about single-core CULV processors and discussed the use of dual-core processors in future models. Intel's recently announced SU2300, SU4100 and SU7300 dual-core CULVs could address such concerns, but not entirely.

The SU2300 for example is a 1.2GHz dual-core, but its performance is on par with the single-core SU3500 in most applications. What's worse, none of the new CPUs, SU2300 included, managed to get close to the SU3500 TDP of just 5.5W. They are rated at 10W, which is still quite low, but the performance gain doesn't seem follow the TDP increase.

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