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[Ron Williams]

Can someone explain to me what the 2nd generation Centrino is. I have heard something about sonoma. I do not quite understand it.

(Subject changed from "Intel 2nd generation Centrino", Admin 25.1.2005)

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[Don_HH2K]

Can someone explain to me what the 2nd generation Centrino is. I have heard something about sonoma. I do not quite understand it.

Centrino is a chipset (sort of) for laptops that combine a Pentium M processor with integrated wireless capabilities. Sonoma is probably just a codename, like Banias was codename for the original Centrino.
The difference between the two: one or both of the following:
* Support for 802.11a/b/g/i
* New chip architecture, thereby higher speeds and new functionality (kind of like the transition between Pentium 3 and Pentium 4, or SSE to SSE2).

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[Mandrake]

Sonoma has 533mhz FSB (as opposed to the 400mhz FSB in Donthan), improved power usage features and higher clock speeds.

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[Ron Williams]

Here is a link about the codenamed "sonoma" processor.

Intel seeks lift from Centrino follow-on

[Edit by profman: Shortened URL with BBCode and included article title. 1/20/2005]

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[Mandrake]

A Sonoma Pentium-M running at 2.13Ghz with the new Alviso chipset and 1GB of ram is as fast as a 3.6Ghz P4 with the Grantsdale chipset and 1GB of ram, according to Intel. Impressive! This processor is clocked much lower than the P4, and uses much less power than the P4, thus running much cooler. I can't wait to see a dual core version of this designed for a desktop PC .

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[Ron Williams]

Before Sonoma is even out the "napa" processor is in the works. Click the link below for more information.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1644111,00.asp

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