Intel Officially Announces Next Generation Santa Rosa Mobile Platform
Intel today officially announced Santa Rosa, which is fourth generation Centrino platform. Santa Rosa platform is expected to be out by early 2007.
What does Santa Rosa have?
- Intel Core 2 processor (code named Merom) with an 800 MHz FSB.
- 965GM North Ridge chip
- Supports 533MHz and 667 MHz DDR2 RAM
- Intel’s GMA X3000 integrated graphics engine with Clear Video Technology for piping video data through the pixel shaders
- Intel PRO/Wireless IEEE 802.11n mini-PCIe WiFi adapter (code named Kedron)
- NAND Flash hard drive cache (code named Robson)
- Uses latest version of Display Power Saving Technology (DPST) 3.0, to reduce power.
- Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) 2.5, tweaked for wireless network connectivity.
- Support for 3G WAN card developed jointly by Nokia and Intel. The card will support the HSDPA download speed boost technology.
Currently Intel is leader in mobile computing as AMD’s Turion 64 X2 does not match upto the Intel’s centrino platform’s performance in all aspects.
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Intel, Intel, Intel….
Intel badly wants to kill AMD
But I’m sure that will never Happen… I’m on AMD’s Side !!
Well, AMD gave consumers a breather as a’Choice’ they had to make. Buying is all about choice. If I were a core gamer I would still never go for Intel after the question of choice AMD appeared, but since am not, Intel definitely makes Photoshop faster for me and so too with 3D applications. But nevertheless both are on the path to frenzied destruction.
In some other blog of you, I read DDR3 a successor version of DDR2 has come, but I find both Intel and AMD are currently supporting only DDR2?
DDR3 is indeed successor to DDR2, currently Intel and AMD do not support. Intel is expected to promote DDR3 RAM when it launches its quad core Yorkfield.
Well, if Yorkfield does support DDR3 why would one wish to buy Kentsfield when after DDR3 comes out DDR2 goes obsolete and so does the processor in a way lose its real power ? I dont understand what to do now, I feel like getting a cheap Pentium D and wait wait and wait… I just want something that is boastable for atleast 2 years!
Right now I am quite contended with my Pentium D 930, I will upgrade only when Yorkfield becomes affordable, my kentsfield plan as of now stands suspended.