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We told you yesterday that Intel Corporation will continue offering faster and harder notebooks to replace desktops. Today we are going to share more information about the future of Intel Centrino, faster, but lighter and thinner mobile personal computers’ platform. This year Intel unveiled a number of terrific offerings in this field, next year there will be even more interesting things to come, as unofficial sources close to Intel said recently.

Intel Pentium M with “Dothan” core processor will go into mass production using Intel’s strained silicon 90nm fabrication technology in the fourth quarter of the year. The company will even ship the CPUs to its partners, but will formally launch the parts only in the Q1 2004. The code-named Dothan processor will use the 400MHz Quad Pumped Bus, but will feature 2MB of L2 cache and higher core-clock compared to the original Pentium M “Banias” core. Thanks to the improved micro-architecture, the Dothan will not have to run at too high clock-speed. It will start at 1.80GHz (at $637 price-point) in the Q1, will gain 100MHz or more in the Q2 and additional hundred or two megahertz in the Q3 2004 to reach the 2.0GHz milestone. Specifically for mainstream notebooks Intel will release the Pentium M 1.70A processor with 2MB L2 cache and reduced pricing.

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News source: Xbit Labs

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