Intel Launches Centrino 2 Processor Technology

Intel Corporation has unveiled its Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops, powered by five new Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The company also has close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs in the pipeline.

Intel has also introduced a high-performing dual-core mobile processor, the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor running at a brisk 3.06 GHz, as measured by SPECint_rate_base2006, an industry benchmark ( www.spec.org ).

The company also has plans to unveil eight new processors within 90 days that will include the first-ever mobile quad-core products and second generation products for ultra thin and light notebooks. In total, Intel will bring 14 diverse new processors into the marketplace as laptop sales continue to outpace desktop PCs.

Formerly code-named Montevina, Intel Centrino 2 processor technology and Intel Centrino 2 with vPro Technology improve upon a laptop’s main features, including performance and battery life via new processors and chipsets, faster draft 802.11n wireless (with WiMAX arriving later this year), and new business-class manageability capabilities.

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“When we first introduced Intel Centrino back in 2003, there were very few Wi-Fi hotspots, YouTube videos and social media didn’t really exist, ’thin and light’ only referred to weight goals and desktop PCs outsold notebooks by a very wide margin,” said R Ravichandran, director – Sales, Intel South Asia. “Today, notebooks are fast gaining share and we are seeing new and previously unheard off usage models. We are paving the way to HD entertainment, rich online gaming, faster broadband wireless speeds and an easier and secure way for businesses to manage, update and repair their notebook fleets.”

Intel is introducing five new dual core processors based on Intel’s reinvented transistors (high-k metal gate formula) and advanced 45 nanometer manufacturing process. These processors come with a faster 1066MHz front side bus and up to 6MB of L2 cache, and three versions reduce laptop processor wattage by about 30 percent, down to just 25 watts. Also featured is Deep Power Down Technology that turns off processing components such as core clocks and cache memory when the laptop is idle for greater energy savings.

Intel also unveiled its new Mobile Intel 45 Express Chipset and wireless Intel WiFi Link 5000 series that is shipping to customers now, with laptops arriving in July and August. Delivering five times the speed and twice the range of older 802.11a/g technology, the Intel WiFi Link 5000 series provides 802.11 draft-N support that delivers the fastest data rates possible today – up to 450 Mbps.

Switchable graphics, a new optional power-saving feature available on Intel Centrino 2-based notebooks, provides both integrated and discrete graphics on a single notebook, enabling users to easily switch between the two options.

For businesses, Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology offers enhanced manageability and security options. This is increasingly important as companies replace desktops with notebooks and need to remotely diagnose, update and repair systems over a wireless network. Improved manageability with AMT 4.0 has also been added that provides wireless manageability during system sleep states, ongoing remote configuration capabilities, support for the latest management standards (WS-MAN and DASH 1.0) and the ability for an employee to initiate communications to IT from outside a company’s firewall.