Intel announces Centrino, Springdale, Canterwood and Prescott details
Press release; Christy Lee, DigiTimes.com [Thursday 20 February 2003]
Chipmaker Intel on February 19 officially announced technical details of its upcoming Centrino notebook platform, Springdale and Canterwood chipsets and the company’s next-generation Prescott-core processors, presenting its product roadmap for the next few quarters.
The Centrino-based products are set to be released on March 12, first with the version that features a processing speed of 1.6GHz, said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and co-general manager of Intel’s mobile platforms group. Stressing higher performance and longer battery life, the Centrino products include an Intel Pentium-M processor, an Intel 855 chipset and an Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 network connection.
For the desktop segment, Intel formally revealed the specification details of its forthcoming Springdale (865P/865G/865PE) and Canterwood (875) chipsets as well as its next-generation Prescott-based processors.
According to Intel, the higher-end Canterwood chipset will support Hyper-Threading Technology and have new features such as dual-channel DDR400 memory support, an 800MHz system bus, AGP 8x and integrated Serial ATA/RAID. The Springdale chipsets’ features include Intel’s next-generation integrated graphics, soft RAID, a new architecture designed to increase Gigabit Ethernet networking performance, dual-channel DDR400 memory and Intel Stable Driver Technology. Both chipsets are scheduled to be launched in the second quarter.
Set to be manufactured on 90nm technology in the second half of 2003, the Prescott processors will feature enhancements to Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology and the Intel NetBurst microarchitecture, the processor maker said. Other new features of the Prescott include an 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) and a 1MB L2 cache.
Besides the Prescott processors, second-generation processors for the Centrino platform will also adopt the 90nm processing technology.
Along with the product details, Intel also announced a new program called Granite Peak where Intel chipsets will be compatible with Intel’s leading-edge desktop and mobile microprocessors for six quarters. Intel said that this will help corporate IT organizations deploy standardized hardware and software configurations over longer periods of time.
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