Intel Pushes Back the Launch of Centrino 2 Mobile Platform
Intel is expected to launch of its mobile platform Centrino 2, codenamed “Montevina” in July this year. Centrino 2 is the first platform to offer an integrated Wi-Fi and WiMax wireless access option, Intel said. In addition, the processor and other components are about 40% smaller and it has longer battery life.
The Centrino 2 platform will be built using Intel’s new manufacturing process that shrinks the size of transistors on a chip to 45 nanometers, thereby increasing the number of the components on each processor. With more transistors than Intel’s previous 65-nm chips, the newest processors are able to deliver more processing power at the same level of energy consumption.
Centrino 2 brings a major graphics upgrade for systems without dedicated video hardware and also introduces a faster 1,066MHz system bus for some processors, the second generation of Turbo Memory flash-based cache drives, and the option of a WiMAX adapter chipset known as Echo Peak.
Source: Information Week
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