Intel's fifth-gen Centrino to launch as Centrino 2
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Chip giant to make darn sure buyers know it's different Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome Centrino... 2. Yes, despite numerous annual updates since the launch of Intel's laptop platform, the next version, codenamed 'Montevina', will apparently be released as its second generation.â¦
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Intel Corp. plans to unveil a version of its Xeon processor on today that&#39;s designed for high-end servers with multiple processors-- setting the stage for a showdown with rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.&#39;s upcoming quad-core Barcelona chip.
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Intel has added new wireless capabilities to its Centrino mobile technology for laptops. The chip vendor introduced a new wireless LAN (WLAN) adapter module with tri-band support, and software to help users configure their wireless connections.
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Intel has showcased the next two generations of its notebook platforms, and revealed how it intends to extend battery life in the future.
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(InfoWorld) - IntelÂ plans to launch the third model of its four-core processor in January, continuing its efforts tostay ahead of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on the next-generation processor family. Intel will launch the Core 2 Quad chip for high-end desktop PCs during the CES trade show in Las Vegas the week of Jan. 8, industry sources said. The new chip follows Intel'sÂ launch in November of its quad-core Xeon 5300 for servers and Core 2 Extreme QX6700 for gamers. Quad-core chips can handle complex tasks faster than single-core chips by using multithreaded software to break each job into smaller pieces, then computing them simultaneously. The chips are most popular with users of servers and workstations running programs like digital media creation and high-end gaming. Intel plans to target this new chip at a broader segment of mainstream users, though it will still focus on processor-intensive, highly threaded programs such as entertainment, gaming and multimedia activities. In the long run, the company plans to use multicore processors as the engines for its full array of technology platforms in the digital home, office, mobile and enterprise markets. Intel is relying on the new design to help it regain momentum in the processor market, where it has lost valuable market share to AMD's dual-core Opteron and Athlon chips in recent months. In response, AMD has shown demonstration versions of itsimproved four-core "Barcelona" version of Opteron, but does not plan to sell the chip commercially until the second half of 2007. The launch of the Core 2 Quad was expected, since Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini had discussed a January launch at the company's trade show in September. But Intel has not announced a release date, the clock speed, price or which hardware vendors plan to use the new microprocessor in PCs.
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Santa Rosa blooms IDF Intel has formally announced 'Santa Rosa', the next generation of its Centrino notebook platform, which will incorporate 802.11n Wi-Fi, 'Robson' NAND Flash hard drive cache and GMA X3000 integrated graphics.â¦
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The M 765 is made using Intel&#39;s newest 90 nm process. It will begin shipping immediately in Centrino-based consumer and business devices.
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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 chipset. Now the company will upgrade those ingredients to a more efficient version of the "Merom" Core 2 Duo chip and "Crestline" ICH8M chipset, 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 the pending 802.11n standard, capable of streaming data at 300M bits per second (bps), five times faster than the current 802.11g, Perlmutter said Wednesday. In a demonstration, he played high-definition segments of a film called "Spoon" on a Santa Rosa platform running Microsoft Corp.'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 1M bps of data and in some cases much more. The company's WiMax plan will be supported by a commitment from service providers Sprint Corp. and Clearwire Corp. 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 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.
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Intel Corp.  will unveil next year a bundle of chips designed for home entertainment computers, and support the move with a branding campaign modeled on the successful launch of its Centrino chips for notebook computers, a person briefed on the matter said.
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(InfoWorld) - IntelÂ launched a dual-core notebook chip for high-end users on Monday, continuing an effort toÂ defend its shareÂ of the fast-growing notebook PC market against Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD). Intel is selling the new Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor to PC vendors now, and says it will reach store shelves within two weeks, boosting performance for the hard-core gamers and digital artists who now use notebooks powered by Intel's Core Duo T2600. The company encouraged vendors to push even faster performance by opening the chip's speed protection locks, allowing them to overclock the processor for even faster operation. Some video game fans seek top performance by running chips beyond their rated speed limits on desktop PCsÂ such asÂ Dell's XPS 720 series. The practice is less common on notebook PCs, which are usually optimized for the best battery endurance. By concentrating on notebooks, Intel is aiming at the sweet spot of the PC market. Vendors have seen sparse growth in desktop PC shipments in recent years, increasing by only single-digit percentages in 2005, 2006, and forecasts for 2007. But demand for notebooks in soaring, with global notebook shipments showing increases of 35.9 percent in 2005, 28.4 percent in 2006, and an estimated 25.3 percent in 2007, according to the analyst firm iSuppli. In May, Intel made another effort to push sales of its mobile chips byÂ launching its Santa Rosa bundleÂ of mobile processors and chipsets, an upgrade to its popular Centrino platform.Â AMD quickly respondedÂ by announcing later that month that it would use a new mobile processor called "Griffin" as the basis of a collection of processors and chip sets code-named Puma, expected to reach markets in the middle of 2008. Intel now hopes to regain the initiative by expanding its Core 2 Extreme brand from high-end desktops to high-end notebooks. It is selling the 2.6GHz Core 2 Extreme X7800 notebook chip for $851. Also on Monday, Intel announced five new desktop chips, led by the quad-core, 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850, intended for game developers, and the 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700. Intel is selling those two chips for $999 and $530, respectively, priced in 1,000-unit quantities. Intel's new dual-core chips are all in the Core 2 Duo family, including the 3.0GHz E6850, for $266; the 2.66GHz E6750, for $183; and the 2.33GHz E6550, for $163. The company is shipping all the chips now, and expects vendors to bring them to markets in two weeks.
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Merom-based Celeron M CPUs too Intel will ship its first Core 2 Duo-derived Celeron M budget notebook processors in Q1 2007, Taiwanese industry sources have claimed. At the same time, the chip giant will offer low-voltage versions of its current 'Merom' line-up, they say.â¦
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NEW YORK -- Intel is reintroducing the Blue Man Group, not used since 2001, in a campaign for its Centrino mobile technology for wireless computing.
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Intel has added a high-end model to its range mobile processors. The Pentium M 765 is based on Intel&#39;s market-leading 90nm manufacturing process technology and features 2MB of integrated, power-managed Level 2 cache.
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T5200 to tackled entry-level Turion X2s? Intel will ship its anticipated low-end mobile Core 2 Duo T5200 dual-core processor next month, it has been claimed by Taiwanese notebook manufacturer moles. The part has not, apparently, been listed on recent Intel mobile roadmaps.â¦
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Intel is expected to kick off its semi-annual developer forum Tuesday by demonstrating a new dual-core processor, something rival AMD showed off last week.
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Blog: Those weird Core 2 Duo ads with the gyrating dancers apparently did their job. It's back to Centrino for Intel's marketing department.
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HDMI, DisplayPort, UVD to be added to laptop chipsets Mobile Roadmap AMD's roadmap for its notebook-oriented has taken a decidedly avian turn as the chip maker gears up to battle Intel's Centrino, a plan that will see it support Flash-fitted hybrid hard drives, 802.11n Wi-Fi, HyperTransport 3 and DirectX 10.â¦