Santa Rose Basic Info

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Published: Thursday 28 September 2006

Intel's next-generation laptop will have an integrated 3G chip from Nokia and improved graphics support for Microsoft's Windows Vista, the company announced on Wednesday.

Nokia's HSDPA technology will appear on motherboards bearing Intel's Santa Rosa package, Dadi Perlmutter, general manager in Intel's mobility group, said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Laptop makers have been experimenting with integrated chips that can connect to cellular data networks, and with these plans, Intel will make Nokia's technology part of its Centrino package of chips.

Santa Rosa is the code-name for the next iteration of Centrino, which blends a processor, chipset and wireless networking technology. Intel's Core 2 Duo processor, already on the market, will be joined to a new chipset called Crestline that comes with support for the company's Active Management Technology (AMT) and improved graphics performance. AMT is a nod to Intel's business customers with support for PC management technologies. The company will also move its networking chips to the faster 802.11n wireless standard.

Santa Rosa is scheduled to arrive in the first half of 2007, Perlmutter said. Around that time, Intel also plans to deliver a new chip based on a different architecture from the Core 2 Duo for ultra-mobile PCs, he said. This chip will consume half as much power as Intel's current mobile designs but at one-fourth the size.

Before that chip arrives, Intel will work on Santa Rosa's power consumption, using two technologies involving its front-side bus architecture and its power management controls. The company is increasing the speed of the front-side bus, which connects the processor to the memory, to 800MHz. That bus can also now dynamically scale down its operating speed, as required by the operating workload.

Also, Intel can now put its processor into a deeper sleep state, because the Crestline chipset is intelligent enough to recognise whether data is stored on the processor's on-chip cache memory or in memory. This means the chipset doesn't have to wake up the processor to check the on-chip cache memory, and waste energy.

Tom Krazit writes for CNET News.com


Thats some Santa Rose info for you 'waitin to buy a laptop' guys!!!

 

HSDPA sounds like expensive stuff. Wireless cards cost hundreds, wonder how much they can/are willing to cut off on the Santa Rosa for it then. Regardless, quite a set of improvements on the wireless connectivity front too.

 

They will be expensive when they are launched.
Lets hope for the best.

 

HSDPA service from Cingular is expensive as hell!! I dont think 70 bucks broadband for only one computer is worth it now days! I pay 40 bucks cable internet and have 5 computers sharing it. They will have to come down in price, maybe atleats around 30 bucks month for people to consider it...

 

anyone got an extimate of price diffence between the santa rosa and the core 2 duos? i like the flash memory idea but its not going to be worth 200 bucks to me, maybe 100 or so...

 

No presently the prices of the Santa Rosa processor havent been exposed.

 

At launch, I suspect they will cost a lot more, since supply will be limited. Dell will bring the processers and the whole Centrino Pro package in quite quickly. The prices should start to decrease after a while, and when the supply has been stablised.

 

Hmm now thats logic

 

how long will their prices take to decrease? (to a level close to the price of the core 2 duo)

 

the 3G from nokia sounds interesting, if I am correct, we can make phone calls using wireless cellular service using laptops with video using a camera isn't.

 

Yes, I would think it would be the same as short time as the Core 2 Duo did. The main reason for that was because most manufacturers got the new processor into their systems very quikly, and this drove up the demand. It may take a little longer for companies that are smaller than Dell and HP to bring out new product refreshes, and so, the price may be high for a few weeks, but eventually it should come down.