The first Banias notebooks will go on sale from major PC companies in the first half of next year. Banias chips are being designed from the ground up for mobile users and CPUs will sit alongside integrated wireless connectivity at the heart of...
In March, Intel plans to unfurl Centrino, an energy-efficient package of chips that will let notebooks run for six hours on a single battery charge, according to Intel. The Centrino bundle includes a brand-new chip, codenamed Banias, built...
The combination of the Pentium-M, a chipset and the Wi-Fi module will in fact be sold under its own brand name: Centrino. For computer makers, part of the appeal of buying the entire Centrino bundle from Intel will come in the testing Intel has done.
The switch-over began with the introduction of the Centrino family of chips for notebooks, last month. Overall, analysts believe that Intel is in good shape, thanks to its newest processor, the Pentium M for notebooks, and relatively slow price...
Instead, the majority of notebooks equipped with Centrino or Pentium M have been purchased by businesses, according to analysts and PC makers. The Centrino bundle includes an 802.11 wireless module, along with the Pentium M processor and an Intel...
By contrast, the Pentium M, the processor at the heart of the Centrino chip bundle, has a thermal ceiling of about 20 watts. Centrino is a bundle of chips that consists of a processor, the Pentium M, a chipset and a wireless chipset.
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