A Preview of Intel's Centrino 2 Platform
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 15, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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The Montevina Rollout for the Rest of 2008
There's more Centrino 2 to come, by the end of this year Intel will add to the Montevina lineup with new small form factor chips. These chips all have the 22mm x 22mm package that was first used in Apple's MacBook Air:
| Core | Platform | Clock Speed | FSB | L2 Cache | TDP | Package | |
| Core 2 Duo SP9400 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 2.40GHz | 1066MHz | 6MB | 25W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo SP9300 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 2.26GHz | 1066MHz | 6MB | 25W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo SL9400 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 1.86GHz | 1066MHz | 6MB | 17W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo SL9300 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 1.60GHz | 1066MHz | 6MB | 17W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo L7700 | 65nm Merom | Santa Rosa | 1.80GHz | 800MHz | 4MB | 17W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo L7500 | 65nm Merom | Santa Rosa | 1.60GHz | 800MHz | 4MB | 17W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo L7300 | 65nm Merom | Santa Rosa | 1.40GHz | 800MHz | 4MB | 17W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo SU9400 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 1.40GHz | 800MHz | 3MB | 10W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo SU9300 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 1.20GHz | 800MHz | 3MB | 10W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo U7700 | 65nm Merom | Santa Rosa | 1.33GHz | 533MHz | 2MB | 10W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo U7600 | 65nm Merom | Santa Rosa | 1.20GHz | 533MHz | 2MB | 10W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo U7500 | 65nm Merom | Santa Rosa | 1.06GHz | 533MHz | 2MB | 10W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo U3300 | 45nm Penryn | Montevina | 1.20GHz | 800MHz | 3MB | 5.5W | 22mm x 22mm |
| Core 2 Duo U2200 | 65nm Merom | Napa Refresh | 1.20GHz | 533MHz | 1MB | 5.5W | 35mm x 35mm |
| Core 2 Duo U2100 | 65nm Merom | Napa Refresh | 1.06GHz | 533MHz | 1MB | 5.5W | 35mm x 35mm |
The Core 2 Duo SL9400 and SL9300 are prime MacBook Air replacement candidates, they run at slightly higher clock speeds, have more L2 cache and actually have a lower TDP than the chips in the MacBook Air (17W vs. 20W).
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Penryn123 - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - link
Will new 25W CPUs also work in Santa Rosa boards? (drop-in replacement possible?)Visual - Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - link
Shame on Intel for the crappy launch... and the whole lot of hype and noise about the "new platform" seems out of place to me, seeing as it is simply more of the same old.The new integrated GPU is really the only big change to me, but I already have very low expectations for it. Nothing unusual, we're already used to Intel's GPUs being inferior to nVidia/ATI. Shame that the "platform" requires an Intel chipset.
The dynamic switching between discrete and integrated GPU has potential, but then again it may be completely useless if the discrete GPUs are able to tune down their power drain when used only for 2D or Aero.
I'm not too excited about detailed specs or performance numbers of the platform itself - "it's good enough" and "it's better than the old one" is all most people need to know and understand really.
I am much more interested in knowing what new things the OEMs are cooking. Will we finally get some decent GPU in a tablet, will we get multi-touch screens, will we get something like AMD's idea of 16x pci-express connector for external GPUs, etc... all things that are quite unrelated to Intel and the new platform launch - they have been possible all along with the old platform and I'm a bit disappointed they are still being delayed.