In January 2006, Intel introduced the revolutionary Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology platform (formerly codenamed Napa), the third generation of the company's Centrino mobile processor technology bundle. Facilitating a whole new generation of … [Continue reading]
Together with the explosive worldwide growth in WLAN hotspots, the unveiling of Intel's second-generation mobile technology platform in January 2005 is expected to lead to the completion of the … [Continue reading]
The first generation Centrino platform (codenamed Montara) was announced in March 2003. The trio of systems that comprise Centrino focus on battery life and the integration of wireless LAN technology. … [Continue reading]
Intel's Pentium 4-M CPU came to market in the spring of 2002 at a clock frequency of up to 1.7GHz. The CPU's Micro FCPGA packaging technology results in the CPU using less power in both the performance … [Continue reading]
PowerNow! is effectively AMD's version of Intel's SpeedStep technology. The premise is a simple one: some applications require less processing power than others. Word processing, for example, consumes … [Continue reading]
Emulating Intel's practice of introducing new technology in lower volume market sectors first, AMD's first deployment of the Palomino core was in their Mobile Athlon 4 processor. At the time it appeared … [Continue reading]
Until 2001 all of AMD's mobile CPUs had been based on the K6 design. The company's Athlon/Duron family of processors had already succeeded in gaining market share from Intel in the desktop arena, in … [Continue reading]
In the summer of 2000 Intel made a renewed bid to establish a serious foothold in the market for wireless Internet devices with the launch of its low-power microprocessor architecture dubbed XScale. … [Continue reading]
In early 2000, chip designer Transmeta Corporation unveiled its innovative Crusoe family of x86-compatible processors aimed specifically at the mobile computing arena and designed with the objective of maximizing … [Continue reading]
Just a few weeks after its launch of the Dixon, Intel demonstrated a revolutionary new mobile processor technology that was expected to close the performance gap between mobile PCs and their historically higher performance desktop … [Continue reading]