Tag Archive for 'centrino'

Fresh on the Centrino 2 bandwagon, Toshiba have launched their latest media-happy Qosmio entertainment notebooks, including the world’s first laptop with Cell Processor technology.  The three new models, which were first announced last month, comprise the G55, the F55 and the gaming X305, and all use Intel’s latest mobile platform.

Intel have officially announced their ‘Montevina’ Centrino 2 platform, including five new processors, new chipsets and wireless products.  They’ve also stoked up a high-performance version, the Centrino 2 Extreme Edition, which promises to be the world’s highest performing dual-core mobile processor.  Support for WiFi draft-n and, later in the year, WiMAX are also promised, as [...]

Centrino 2 processors were slated for August, but it might not be that long until we see the new chips in some upcoming mainstream notebooks. Intel is now anticipated the chip to be available to manufacturers as early as mid-July.

Intel has confirmed that the launch of its next-generation Centrino chipset, “Montevina”, has been delayed until mid-July.  The platform was originally slated to launch in Q2, with the official launch predicted by the end of May.  Intel are blaming both hardware and documentation issues for the hold-up; the new chipsets won’t be available in volume until [...]

While trying desperately to ramp up Atom production, Intel are also looking to the future of their Centrino platform, with the upcoming Centrino 2 Montevina chipset looking likely to include solid-state drives (SSD).  According to sources at PC manufacturers, Intel is looking to release SSDs by the end of Q3 2008, in recognition of the [...]

Sure, this little UMPC can fit in the palm of your hand and is only marginally larger than a lot of the larger smartphones being released these days, but this is no smartphone, this is a full on computer. It has an Intel Atom processor inside, a 40GB HDD, a 5” touchscreen, and so much [...]

Intel will be labeling its new Montevina platform as Centrino 2. The chip is due in Q2 (probably in May) and will be running on 1066MHz FSB with clock starting from 2.26Ghz up to 3.06Ghz. The Centrino 2 chips will be priced at $209-851.
Montevina to be paired with the Cantiga chipset and refreshed Wi-Fi 802.11 [...]