Intel has officially launched the Centrino 2 platform. Shipping from today, it consists primarily of a 45nm Penryn Core 2 Duo processor running from 2.26GHz to 3.06GHz, with a 6MB L2 cache and a 1066MHz front side bus.
The chipset has integrated WiFi-N and Graphics which would be augmented with WiMax support later this year. The biggest boone Intel claims is that the Centrino 2 platform offers 23% more performance at 23% less power as well as 70% faster graphics.
Two key features of the Centrino 2 platform are HUGI (Hurry Up and Get Idle) and VPro, which would let system administrators remotely control laptops via wireless even when the laptop is sleeping.
Intel’s Vice President of Mobile Platforms, Mooly Eden, explained that the new platform is all about HUGI.
He stated that the optimum state a mobile processor should be in is sleep mode “just like his wife”. HUGI allows the processor to be woken up when a task comes along, and put back to sleep rapidly once its done. Providing tremendous power savings.
In addition, the chipset would also support dynamic switching between the integrated graphics package and a standalone graphics card to save battery life. ATI is already producing graphics cards for the platform and nVidia will shortly.
Both consumer and enterprise offerings will have full support for dual channel DDR3 memory and Blu-Ray playback.
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