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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Monday, 04 May 2009 09:59 |
Notebooks all the way
Nehalem technology based Calpella notebooks will come in Q3 2009 and they are suppose to give a boost to Intel’s notebook sales. Montevina is doing fine but its time to give notebook sales a new spirit.
Calpella will move to a new chip design, where the CPU interconnects with the Mobile Intel 5-series express chipset. The CPU will have an integrated memory controller with DDR3 support and Lynnfield will have PCIe support as this upcoming quad core won’t have an integrated IGP in the CPU. The CPU scheduled for Q1 2010, the dual core Arrandale will get the IGP core inside of the CPU packaging in an multi-chip package.
Since the first wave of Calpella notebooks are exclusively quad cores, Nvidia and ATI will compete with its discrete chips and we are hearing that Nvidia is having a better success with its 40nm discrete cores.
ATI kind of abandoned this market as its discrete graphic sales went down the toilet some time ago, and they definitely need to do something about it. We expect a preview to Calpella and Nvidia 40nm notebook GPUs at Computex.
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