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Intel Speeds Mobile Pentiums

Chip giant plans to release six new notebook processors.

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

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Intel will launch a major foray into the notebook computer market next week with the launch of six new processors under the name Pentium M.

The chips will be announced on Wednesday and kick off a multi-million dollar marketing campaign that pushes both the chips and also its new Centrino architecture, which includes the Pentium M, the companion chip set, and a wireless LAN adapter.

The first Pentium M processors, which pack around 77 million transistors, will be available at speeds of 1.6 GHz, 1.5 GHz, 1.4 GHz, and 1.3 GHz as well as a low voltage version at 1.1 GHz and an ultra low voltage version at 900 MHz, according to Intel.

Chipping In

In addition to the new processor, Intel is launching a new chip set, which is the chip that connects the processor with most of the rest of the computer. The chip set will be available in two versions, the 855PM and 855GM, the latter of which has integrated graphics support.

To match the Pentium M chips, both chip sets support the 400-MHz processor frontside bus being used on the new processor. They can also support up to 2GB of double data rate memory, which is twice that supported by Intel's current mobile chip sets.

The wireless LAN adapter that makes up part of Centrino will support IEEE 802.11b.

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