Intel offers look beyond Santa Rosa – Centrino Notebooks
The next version of Intel’s Centrino notebook platform, called Santa Rosa, will hit the market next month, but the company is already looking ahead to other products, including an updated “Santa Rosa refresh” and a quad-core mobile processor set for release next year.
The update to Santa Rosa will be based on a mobile Penryn processor, the name given to the upcoming 45-nanometer shrink of Intel’s current chip designs. The first Penryn chips will be produced later this year and the updated version, or refresh, of Santa Rosa will hit the market during the first half of 2008. “We will be able to take Penryn, the 45-nanometer [chip], and plug it into exactly the same platform to enable a fast ramp,” said Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel’s mobile platform group, in an interview.
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