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Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology Performance Brief

Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology Performance Brief

http://www.intel.com/performance
July 2005

Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology Performance Brief

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Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology Performance Brief

Executive Summary: The Next Generation of Intel® Centrino™Mobile Technology
On January 19th 2005, Intel Corporation introduced the next generation Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology platform (formerly codenamed “Sonoma”). With the new platform, Intel continues to deliver new notebook PC capabilities designed specifically for the mobile world. Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology allows users to work, play and connect without wires and choose from a whole newgeneration of thin and light notebook PCs that are designed to enable great battery life. With the new generation of Intel Centrino mobile technology, three components work together to deliver a breakthrough in freedom and capability— to work, learn and play on the go. These components include: • Intel® Pentium® M Processor based on 90nm process technology featuring 2MB L2 cache and 533MHz frontside bus • Mobile Intel® 915 Express chipset family • Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915ABG or 2200BG Network Connection The Intel Pentium M processor with 90nm process technology is based on a high performance, low power microarchitecture and includes several innovative features like a high performance, power optimized System Bus which supports speeds up to 533MHz, 32KB Level 1 instruction and data caches,...