Intel's Centrino mobile CPUs
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 27, 2003 at 3:24:55 PM
The banias low voltage and high performance chip will be known as Centrino. Weird names all around. The chip is also called Pentium-M, with no sign of a 3 or 4 in the name.
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The company will unveil three versions of its low-power Pentium-M processor, formerly code-named Banias, as part of the Centrino package. Aside from coming out with a standard Pentium-M chip, which is expected to run at speeds ranging from 1.3GHz to 1.6GHz, the company will release two as-yet-undisclosed lower-power versions of the chip, sources close to the company said. The new chips include an ultra-low-voltage Pentium-M that will debut at 900MHz and a low-voltage Pentium-M chip that will begin at 1.1GHz, according to the sources. The chips, along with the rest of the Centrino family, will allow Intel to target the full range of notebook models sold by manufacturers.