Update: Intel mobile platform slated for first-half of 2007
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(InfoWorld) - Intel's "Santa Rosa" notebook platform will hit the streets in the first half of 2007, bringing improvements in processing power, battery life, and wireless connectivity over the current Centrino architecture. Intel has enjoyed strong sales with Centrino, which combines a low-wattage processor and wireless ability with an efficient chip set. Now the company will upgrade those ingredients to a more efficient version of theÂ Merom Core 2 Duo chipÂ and Crestline ICH8M chip set, together code-named Santa Rosa. The company will also make the Santa Rosa notebooks start up faster by augmenting current memory technology with a NAND flash-based disk cache, said Dadi Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's mobility group, at Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday. Compared with a Centrino PC, that "Robson" technology will allow future notebooks to load applications twice as fast and wake up from a hibernation state twice as fast. For wireless connectivity, the new notebooks will use theÂ pending 802.11n standard, capable of streaming data at 300Mbps, five times faster than the current 802.11g, Perlmutter said Wednesday. To support users until 802.11n is officially approved, Intel has arranged an interoperability program with access point vendors including Buffalo Wireless, D-Link Systems, Cisco Systems' Linksys division, and Netgear. Intel will also deliver embedded 3G (third-generation) wireless WAN technology from Nokia, Perlmutter said. In a demonstration, he played high-definition segments of a film called "Spoon" on a Santa Rosa platform running Microsoft's Vista OS. That level of broadband connectivity will also allow Intel to extend its new vPro business bundle to notebooks, after having launched it for desktops on Sept. 7. "But the jewel of the crown for wireless connectivity is WiMax," Perlmutter said. Intel plans to deliver an integrated Wi-Fi and WiMax chip by 2008. WiMax is a metropolitan-area wireless technology designed to deliver at least 1Mbps of data and in some cases much more. The company's WiMax plan will be supported by a commitment from service providers SprintÂ and Clearwire to start building mobile WiMax networks in 2007 and provide commercial service by 2008. Intel also said it would extend WiMax support to future reference designs for the handheld Ultramobile PC (UMPC) platform, including a 2.5-pound version for students up to university age. Intel displayed a sample UMPC currently sold by Asus in Taiwan and said its partners would launch a U.S. version in the first half of 2007 with an upgraded CPU and chip set. Intel also expects vendors to begin selling a low-cost "Classmate" notebook in developing nations in the first quarter of 2007, according to spokesman Larry Carr. Intel's reference design brings the price below $400 by using a small Windows XP Embedded OS and flash memory instead of a hard drive, he said. The product will sell first in Mexico, Brazil, India, and Nigeria.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Although the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard isn't expected to be ratified before early 2008, Intel plans to include a pre-standard version of the wireless networking technology in its Centrino chips next year.
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Wi-Fi N, WiMAX and HSDPA on laptops next year Comment Intel has used the platform of its developer conference this week to reveal a roadmap for future wireless connectivity that will take in at least three different types of broadband connectivity for PCs.â¦
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Intel Corp.&#39;s dual-core strategy for mobile processors became a little clearer this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, but questions remain
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Intel announced Wednesday the latest member of its Centrino mobile processor family, the Pentium M 765 chip. The 765 now is the company's flagship mobile processor for consumer and business notebooks, according to IDC analyst Alan Promisel.
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Intel, looking to maintain mind share and market share in the mobile PC space, said Thursday it will begin shipping new, tri-band wireless functionality in its Centrino platform next month and will boost software and security support.
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Intel Pentium M processors, along with Intel 855 chipset family and the Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection family, are key components of Intel Centrino mobile technology -- Intel&#39;s best technology for mobile computing.
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(InfoWorld) - What will they put in notebook PCs next? At Intel's recent Developer Forum conference in Beijing, the company revealed it's working on quad-core processing to go. Set for release in 2008, the quad-core mobile processor is aimed at high-level gaming and mobile computers, where users will trade battery life for more performance. While the most demanding users (including gamers and those doing video editing) always want more processing power, this chip won't appear in standard business notebooks for some time. "You'll see it at the high end, but I don't see it running so fast into the mainstream because I don't believe there will be enough threaded applications that will justify the trade-offs," says Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile platform group. (Multithreaded applications allow several parts of software code to be executed simultaneously, taking advantage of multiple processing cores.) The quad-core mobile chip will likely differ in some way from Intel's current desktop and server quad-core chips, which strap together two dual-core dies inside a single-chip package. Meanwhile, the next version of Intel's Centrino notebook platform, code-named Santa Rosa, hit the market last month. Compared with Centrino, Santa Rosa offers several improvements, including dynamic acceleration, which raises the clock speed of one processor core above the guaranteed frequency level when the other core has powered down. This raises the performance of the remaining core while keeping the processor operating within the thermal limits envisioned by Intel engineers. This differentiates Dynamic Acceleration from overclocking, where users raise the frequency of a processor beyond the intended level.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Intel is building a Symbian-based mobile phone, based on Nokia&#39;s Series 60 user interface. The company has not announced a delivery date, but a reference platform should arrive sometime in 2005, intended to
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Sales of laptops using Intel's mobile processor are picking up.
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Intel is readying a line of consumer electronics chips based on the IA-32 architecture, the design underlying the vast majority of Intel&#39;s desktop, notebook and server processors, said Louis Burns, co-general manger of the Desktop Platforms Group at Intel
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Fulfilling a long-time goal, Intel Corp. is set to introduce on Thursday its first chip set that supports all three current forms of Wi-Fi, according to sources familiar with the announcement.
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Intel is teaming with mobile-phone giant Nokia and software developer Symbian on next-generation mobile phones, or smartphones. Demand for these devices -- which promise Web browsing, multimedia
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Highlights of this year's Intel Developer forum included new 45nm Penryn and Nehalem CPUs, upcoming server and enthusisat motherboards, $200 laptops, and a talk with Gordon Moore. Here's what it all looked like.
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Powerful computer processor will be modified for mobile devices.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. outlined its plans for a dual-core mobile processor and platform technology Wednesday, but declined to provide any details about the dual-core future of its flagship Pentium 4 desktop processor.
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(InfoWorld) - Laptops aren't the only computers slated to get support for WiMax next year. On Wednesday, Intel is expected to announce plans to add the wide-area networking technology and support for 3G mobile technology as options for ultramobile PCs running Windows or Linux. The company also plans to add WiMax as an option to its Centrino notebook package next year. The ultramobile PCs will be based on Intel's Menlow chip package, which includes the upcoming Silverthorne processor and single-chip Poulsbo chipset. Expected to be released in early 2008, the package is designed for ultramobile PCs running Windows or the Linux operating system. Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, is expected to announce that WiMax, 3G, and Wi-Fi will be available as options with Menlow for ultramobile PCs during a scheduled keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Chandrasekher is scheduled to be joined on stage during his speech by Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and CEO of Canonical, which distributes the Ubuntu version of Linux. Shuttleworth plans to use the opportunity to unveil an alpha version of Ubuntu designed for small, portable computers. If Intel's aim to popularize ultraportable PCs based on Linux takes off with end-users, this will have far-reaching implications by expanding the number of people that use Linux beyond technology enthusiasts to the mainstream, and treading into territory coveted by Microsoft.