Intel launches Dothan processors for laptops

Intel has announced the availability of three new mobile processors in its
Centrino range for laptops. Code named Dothan, the Intel Pentium M processors
735, 745 and 755 are the first mobile processors built on 90nm technology. These
are clocked at 1.7 GHz, 1.8 GHz and 2 GHz respectively. The company claims that
the new processors will enhance wireless users to work, play and communicate
better.

Jayant Murthy, Director (Marketing) for Intel, South Asia, elaborated on the
features of the new Dothan processors, which include improvements in
manufacturing, use of strained silicon wafers for better performance, doubling
the number of transistors while keeping the power consump-tion the same, power
efficient cache memory and architec-tural enhancements.

The new processors come a year after Intel introduced its Centrino
processors, which featured power efficient performance with wireless
capabilities. The Dothan processors enable the use of many wireless applications
such as watching live video, CNBC’s Wireless Traveler and on air
entertainment.

Ramesh Babu, Director (Sales and Marketing) for Intel, South Asia, admitted
that there were challenges with wireless technology in India such as, the lack
of wireless penetration, high price of laptops and preference of desktops over
laptops. But he was confident that the cost differential was narrowing, which
could lead to a shift to laptops.

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