Intel Boosts Centrino&#39;s Speed
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Intel gave its Centrino laptop package a speed boost this week with the release of a new, faster Pentium M processor. The Centrino package includes a Pentium M processor, a PC chip set, and a WLAN (wireless LAN) chip set.
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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 updated its MacBook Pro line of laptops Tuesday, giving the computers slightly faster processors, more memory, and better graphics capabilities across the board.
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The upgrade enables the chip to also connect to less common 802.11a and 802.11i versions of Wi-Fi. SAN FRANCISCO: Intel Corp. said it has upgraded the wireless networking capabilities of its Centrino line
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Intel announced yesterday that it had mastered a new design that makes computing more powerful, less expensive and so much more efficient that mobile devices like cellphones may soon accomplish tasks reserved until recently for desktop computers and other equipment with larger processors.
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Centrino successor, codenamed 'Santa Rosa', to improve processing power, battery life, Intel says.
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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Blog: Next week will see the arrival of new Intel chips for servers with four or more processors, as the chipmaker finally moves past the old Netburst architecture.
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Intel has given its Centrino laptop package a speed boost with the release of a new, faster Pentium M processor. The Centrino package includes a Pentium M processors, a PC chipset and a wireless Lan chipset.
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Intel has released a new member of the Pentium M family. The Pentium M model 765 runs clocks in at 2.10GHz and has a 2MB cache, 400MHz system bus and other enhancements.
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Chipmaker's multiprocessing technology makes its stage debut, and Intel looks to its next take on Centrino.
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The world&#39;s largest chip maker, Intel, is changing its approach to making faster computer microprocessors. It has dropped plans to release a four gigahertz version of its flagship Pentium 4 chip.
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Advanced Micro Devices this week introduced its fastest desktop processor, heating up competition with rival chip maker Intel for the hearts of PC enthusiasts and hard-core gamers.
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Intel Monday officially launched Penryn-based dual-core processors for notebooks, but also indicated that users expecting quad-core mobile processors may have to wait until issues surrounding power consumption are resolved.The company&#39;s Core 2 Duo processors will be delivered to laptops based on the Centrino mobile platform. Manufactured using the 45-nanometer process, the new CPUs (central processing units) will provide laptops with better performance and improved battery life, said Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager, Intel Mobile Platforms Group.Intel&#39;s dual-core processors are good enough for notebooks at present as they perform required tasks and do not strain battery life, Eden said. Quad-core processors have power-consumption issues and are not ideal for laptops yet, Eden said.Although Eden did not talk about Intel&#39;s mobile quad-core processor road map, he said notebooks in the near future will continue to see energy-efficient dual-core processors. Quad-core processors may first make their way to the high-end gaming and workstation notebooks that require heavy processing power, Eden said.To preserve battery life, the Penryn-based Core 2 Duo processors have an advanced power management state called Deep Power Down Technology, which reduces a processor&#39;s power when not functional.While cutting down on power usage, Penryn processors jump to higher clock rates and feature cache and design improvements that boost the processors&#39; performance compared with earlier 65-nm processors, Intel has said. The improved processors deliver better video performance with the help of instruction sets designed to process graphics and high-definition video tasks.Penryn processors feature smaller transistors and cut down on electricity leaks, according to Intel. The processors use high-k metal-gate transistors, which make the processors faster and less leaky compared with earlier processors that have silicon gates.The improved Centrino mobile platform, called Santa Rosa Refresh, will feature the Intel Mobile 965 processor and support for 802.11n wireless networking. An upgrade to the platform code-named Montevina is already being planned by Intel, and is due out in the second half of 2008. The Montevina platform will include Echo Peak, a mini-card that integrates WiMax and Wi-Fi wireless technology on one chip.The new Core 2 Duo processors -- the T8100, T8300, T9300 and T9500 -- feature clock speeds between 2.10Ghz and 2.6Ghz, with 3M bytes to 6M bytes of shared L2 cache. Prices for the chips range from US$209 for the T8100 chip to $530 for the T9500 chip.Intel also introduced the Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor, which runs at 2.8GHz, includes 6M bytes of shared L2 cache and is priced at $851.No vendors made announcements of systems including the new processors at the time of press.Intel also added Penryn-based server and desktop processors on Monday.It released Core 2 Quad quad-core desktop processors with clock speeds of 2.5GHz to 2.83GHz and prices ranging from $266 to $530. Intel also released four dual-core desktop processors, including the Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 processor, which runs at 3.16GHz, includes 6M bytes of L2 cache and is priced at $266.Intel will ship three new Xeon quad-core processors, with clock speeds ranging from 2.5Ghz to 2.83GHz and shared L2 cache from 6M bytes to 12M bytes, with prices from $266 to $530. The company&#39;s new dual-core Xeon E3110 processor, which runs at 3GHz and includes 6M bytes of shared L2 cache, is priced at $188.
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By Subashini Selvaratnam  INTEL Corp is working on a new 45-nanometre (nm) transistor technology which will boost the processing speeds in personal computers (PCs), laptops and servers.
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With the introduction of its highly anticipated vPro platform today, Intel is trying to create an all-inclusive brand that does for business desktops what Centrino did for notebooks and portable connectivity. But how soon will businesses decide they need the new features Intel offers?
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&quot;Thin and light&quot; is the order of the day in enterprise mobile computing, and road warriors have had the benefit of Intel&#39;s Centrino platform, which has allowed for some featherweight notebook offerings of late.