Intel Updates Centrino Notebook Computer Chips
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Intel Corp., the world's largest  chip maker, updated its line of Centrino notebook computer  chips on Wednesday with higher speeds and improved multimedia  features, a move the company hopes will further propel one of  its fastest-growing businesses.
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Intel Corp. updated its 2005 product plans at its analyst meeting in New York Tuesday, including a timetable for its so-called &quot;Ts,&quot; the processor technologies that are beginning to take precedence over clock-speed increases.
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Intel announced its "Merom" chip for notebooks as Alienware, Gateway and Toshiba America began selling notebooks with the new chip.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel'sÂ Centrino platform that uses WiMaxÂ wide-area networking technology -- but Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple are not expected to be among them. Asustek Computer Inc., Acer Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., which sells laptops under the Panasonic brand, all plan to use the coming version of Centrino, called Montevina, that supports WiMax, Intel said in a statement. Centrino Duo laptops with WiMax will be available from these vendors in 2008, it said. The vendors are expected to announce their support on Wednesday during a scheduled keynote speech by Dadi Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobility Group, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. HP and Dell, the world's top two laptop vendors, are not among the companies that plan to voice support for Centrino for WiMax. But the expected absence of these companies doesn't necessarily mean they don't plan to sell Centrino laptops with WiMax. For example, it could simply mean they have not yet reached an agreement with Intel to make the technology available in their products. Also absent from Wednesday's planned announcement is Apple, which typically holds its future product plans close to its chest, rarely offering a look at its long-range plans. Montevina is set for release during the middle of 2008 and will replace the current version of Centrino, called Santa Rosa, in Intel's product lineup. Montevina will include a dual-core mobileÂ Penryn processorÂ made using a 45-nanometer process, a chipset, and the option of using Echo Peak, the code name of a wireless module that includes support for both Wi-Fi and WiMax. The chip package will also be available in a version without Echo Peak, offering support for only Wi-Fi. Montevina will also include hardware support for HD-DVD and Blu-ray high-definition disc formats, compatibility with faster DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3) memory, as well as new management and security features designed for corporate users, Intel said. The package will be available for a range of laptop designs, including subnotebooks to high-end laptops, Intel said.
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Extends budget CPU line Intel has added a 3.46GHz processor to its Celeron D chip line up. The 65nm LGA775 part contains 512KB of L2 cache and operates across a 533MHz frontside bus. It supports 64-bit addressing and the execute-disable bit.â¦
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Intel is shipping a new mobile processor built on 90nm process technology that clocks up to 2.1GHz. The Pentium M 765 includes 2MB of integrated L2 cache and a &quot;power optimized&quot; 400MHz system bus and enhanced &quot;Speedstep&quot; power saving technology.
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Intel Corp. gave its Centrino laptop package a speed boost Wednesday with the release of a new, faster Pentium M processor. The Centrino package includes a Pentium M processor, a PC chipset and a WLAN (wireless LAN) chipset.
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US chipmaker AMD on Monday introduced a faster mobile chip, Athlon 64 processor 3000+, for thin and light notebook computers. The new chip enables a powerful 32-bit computing
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InfoWorld - Samsung Electronics will update its mobile processor lineup with a new chip that combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for multimedia, including 3D graphics and video, the company said Sunday.
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InfoWorld - Just weeks before launching its new Centrino notebook platform, Intel&#160;said Wednesday it had cancelled plans to provide wireless access with an HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) module built by Nokia.
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Intel announced a new tri-mode wireless module (supporting IEEE standards 802.11a, b and g) for notebooks based on Intel Centrino mobile technology.
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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 said it had begun shipping its Core 2 Duo mobile chips on Monday, clearing the way for the faster and more powerful processor to begin making its way into laptop computers in time for the holiday season.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel will update its Centrino laptop package in January with a new processor and better graphics. The update, called Santa Rosa Refresh, will replace Centrino's current processors with chips made using aÂ 45-nanometer production processÂ -- part of Intel'sÂ Penryn chip familyÂ -- instead of the 65-nm process now in use. The number refers to the average feature size that can be created on a chip and smaller is generally better. The planned release of Santa Rosa Refresh is set to be announced Wednesday by Dadi Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobility Group, during a scheduled speech at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Moving to a more advanced manufacturing process typically results in faster chips that consume less power. It also allows chip makers to reduce the size of the chip, either cutting unit production costs since more chips can be made on a silicon wafer or allowing new capabilities, such as a larger memory cache, to be added to the chip. The Santa Rosa Refresh will also include the 965 Express chipset and support for Microsoft's Direct X10 technology. This updated version of Centrino will itself be replaced in the middle of 2008 with a new version, called Montevina. This version of Centrino will also use a 45-nm processor but includes a new chipset that offers support for faster DDR3 (double data rate 3) memory. Montevina will also WiMax as an option in addition to Centrino's customary Wi-Fi support.
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AMD&#39;s latest Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ is set to go head to head with Intel&#39;s high-end Centrino CPUs. The AMD processor offers Enhanced Virus Protection designed to prevent the spread of malicious viruses when
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Intel expanded the capabilities of its Centrino chips Thursday by introducing support for an additional wireless networking standard known as 802.