Intel’s Centrino 2 delayed to July
Sources close to Intel have confirmed earlier reports that Intel’s Montevina notebook platform, referred to as Centrino 2, will see a substantial delay. Montevina will not make it to Computex next week and will miss its originally planned debut date later in June. Intel has decided to delay Centrino 2, providing AMD with an opportunity to pitch its Puma platform and Turion Ultra processor. Intel’s engineering and manufacturing engine has been running flawlessly over the past two years, taking away AMD’s room to breathe. But, of course, mistakes are bound to happen at some point and Intel is now being confronted with an issue serious enough to officially delay the launch of Centrino 2. Analyst Doug Freedman claimed that the company had a “mis-step in the completion of FCC certification” for the next-generation Centrino processor with support for the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. F
reedman said that 802.11n support may see a slower ramp as Montevina can only be shipped with support 802.11 a/b/g for now. Freedman also noted that Intel faces problems with its integrated graphics chipset, which is causing failures in OEM notebooks. “We believe the potential impact is to lower-end systems as higher-end notebooks are designed with discrete graphics cards. In fact, the impact on [Intel] is a possible improvement in mix within the chipset business; however, it is offset by the yield loss related to the functional issues.” Our sources at Intel told us that Centrino 2 is no scheduled for a July 14 launch with “some chipsets”. A “couple of weeks later” the company will be shipping the full line of chipsets, as the company needs “a few extra days” for tasks such as antenna testing.
Source: TG Daily
Comments(12)
If this results in the delay of the EEE-PC 901 I am going to be very pissed off.
wow you had something smart to say and not just first!
3rd!
AMD FTW!!!
bad day for intel since the eu comp commision is going to announce a multi billion case against them later today
EEE-Pc won’t be using Montevina, and btw there already using montevina in some laptops
@2 stunzeed
Yeah, you are right!
maybe im just getting old but i am happy with the current gen of cpus. They seem very fast to me.
Intel could help themselves bridge the gap in time maybe by allowing a few gaming notebooks the ability to unlock the core and overclock? It would cost next to nothing and definetly bump up the sales of a few laptops AND definetly bump up the sales of those cpus. I have now a T7300… ive been upgrading as the new ones came out from my T2400 to my T7200 and then this slight upgrade to a 4mB l2 cache. The speed on this laptop is amazing.
I am selling it though, i need the money. Anyone want an ASUS G1S gaming edition laptop w/ all boxes and in perfect condition for $900 shipped? I have an account on ebay with 100% positive feedback we can do the sale safely through there. Specs are: T7300 Cpu, nVidia 8600GT GO 512mb which is an underclocked version of the fastest laptop gpu the 8800GT. And my GPU is overclockable. 160GB sata hd, 2GB ram, DVD-RAM DL (might be lightscribe not sure) 15.4″ BEAUTIFUL WUXGA+ i have seen a ton of lcds on laptops and this one was one of the best combination of a matte and glossy lcd. built in webcam, 802.11 N-G-B-A wifi. . Email me chezouff@aol.com or go to ebay and contact me through there my ebay name is Chezouff.
Green Led lights respond to gaming and music. This laptop is a great one.
Sorry for selling something, it wasnt my intention when i first posted.
@steve
Latops will never be very good at games! Go for a desktop PC! I’ve changed my stock cooler with a better one and now I’m running my Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 @4Ghz! It’s really that easy!
its actually plays the newer games pretty well. It’ll play Crysis and COD4 at decent settings and it plays C&C3 at full with power to spare, plus i havnt hit the cieling in overclocks. But what you state is obvious, a bigger home pc will always be able to perform better then a laptop.
Could someone explain what the specs are for a Centrino 2 and any significant differences from the first Centrino?
Nevermind, it seems that the most impressive spec is that it can reach 3.06 GHz.