centrino chipset

[shamus21]

I am sure there was some news last month about a new chipset coming out end of the year for pentium M`s , mobile centrino etc. can`t find it now anybody got any info on this and will it support DDR x 2.

[Swafe]

i dont see the fascination about centrino, sure it has all this wireless malarkey integrated, but couldnt they just put that in any old laptop to be fair?

the centrino 2 chipset looks good ( i still think they could just stick on a reciever somewhere ! ) but yeah apprently has DDR2 AND BLUETOOTH as well as wifi and and whatever else centrino 1 had

[Dorza]

Centrino is a combination of the, Pentium M, 855 chipset and the intel PRO/2100 mini-PCI wireless network card. Its just a marketing ploy by Intel to force their way into the wireless networking buisness more than anything else really.


Is the new chipset comeing out with the new Pentium M Core (cant remember the name of it). If it is its going to have PCI-E support aswell, i believe.

[Jonny M]

New Pentium-M "Dothan" core CPUs are appearing in some high end Acer laptops already (they can be first to market as they make their own machines), currently at 2.0Ghz, which going by the performance of the Banias cores, is damn powerful

[shamus21]

Well could not find that news item but after a look around found this on the www.theregister.co.uk


IDF Intel's second-generation Centrino platform, 'Sonoma', will be launched next Autumn, the chip maker's mobile products chief, Anand Chandrasekher, said today.

Sonoma incorporates 'Dothan', the 90nm Pentium M, along with 'Alviso', the next-generation Centrino chipset. The platform was unveiled at last autumn's IDF, and given a broad release timeframe, sometime in the second half of 2004.

Chandrasekher revistited Sonoma during IDF this week. He confirmed speculation that Alviso will provide a 533MHz effective bit rate frontside bus. There's dual-channel DDR 2 SDRAM support in the mix, too - up to 2GB of it - along with the next, third version of Intel's integrated Extreme Graphics, with its dual-display capability and TV out.

Alviso features Intel's High Definition Audio sub-system, formerly known as 'Azalia', which is built into the ICH6-M South Bridge. As revealed last year, it also provides Serial ATA and Gigabit Ethernet support, along with room to cope with up to eight USB 2.0 ports and four PCI Express ports, primarily for ExpressCard devices.

Canny readers will have already noted the considerable similiarities between Alviso and 'Grantsdale', Intel's next major desktop chipset release, a point Chandrasekher himself conceded.

Sonoma's third component is the 'Calexico 2' tri-band 802.11 adaptor, which should ship sooner than 'Centrino 2' - or however Sonoma is finally branded. Chandrasekher said it would ship mid-2004, and feature new software, codenamed 'Muroc', that provides a much easier to use interface. Intel has also built in hardware-based AES encryption. ®

In time for the Xmas sales i hope.