Intel's CPUs diverge
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 18, 2003 at 3:23:53 PM
The new mobile CPUs are coming out at IDF this year, on March 12. This marks a change, before, mobile CPUs were just scaled back version of the desktop counterparts. Now, this is an entirely new chip.
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Prescott and the Pentium-M--formerly known as Banias--will mark an evolutionary breaking point. Right now, Intel desktop and notebook chips come with slightly different capabilities, but derive from the same basic design.
By contrast, the Pentium-M will feature a distinct design geared toward reducing power consumption and will be optimized to run in wireless computers. Intel, in fact, will begin to tout how the chip and companion wireless components have been certified to work with networking gear from Cisco Systems, according to sources. By the end of 2003, the Pentium-M will become the predominant notebook chip from Intel, according to Don MacDonald, director of mobile platforms at Intel.