INTEL IS ON A LAUNCH SPREE TOO

Looking forward solid state drives to develop into the mainstream laptop storage arrangement, Intel is setting up to launch SSD products by the end of the 3rd quarter this year which it will package as part of its forthcoming Centrino 2 platform (Montevina), with reference to sources at PC producers. Intel has christened the product line Intel High Performance SSD and will generally target enterprise, mid-range and high-end laptop markets. Preliminary shipments of Intel High Performance SSDs will approach in 2 variants – Client X25-M and Client X18-M – the previous having a physical size of 2.5-inch and presently 1.8-inch. Both will attribute 80GB capability and a SATA boundary. Intel projects to augment storage capacities up to 160GB by the end of the 4th quarter, and to 250GB and more in 2009, the sources revealed.

AMD ON THE LAUNCHING SPREE OF THEIR NEW ENTRÉE

Laptop gaming focused Mobility Radeon HD 3000 version from the house of AMD will attribute 6 discrete GPU, all entirely specified on the upcoming 55nm technology. Earlier this year, AMD formally introduced the release of the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 variant of mobile GPU. The ingress-level ATI Mobility Radeon HD3430 will be motorized by M82 GPU joined with the 40 Stream processors. The mid series Mobility Radeon HD3650 will be operational with M86 GPU and 120 Stream of processors. It can be packaged with GDDR3/GDDR2 memory based on the end producers.

The flag bearer of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series yields are HD 3850, 3870, 3850 X2 and 3870 X2. All these 4 cards are design specific on the M88 GPU core. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 are mid-series contributions for gaming notebooks. These will be motorized by 320 Stream processors and memory of 512MB of GDDR3 memory. They will contend unswervingly with popular NVIDIA merchandises like the GeForce 8600M, GeForce 8700M and GeForce 9500M. The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 3870 X2 are Crossfire pairs containing a 1GB of total video memory capacity and 640 of extreme Stream processors.

INTEL’S ON THE LAUNCH SPREE

Intel's Centrino 2 platform is calendared for launch in the next quarter. Sure, they have little to worry about in the high-end Core 2 DUO and Quad-core Core 2 Extreme as they will explicitly win the performance coronet, but what about the entry-level contributions? Just to make sure that they don't lose in the entry-level notebook market, they have some novel Celeron M offerings with clock speed tuned higher and 667 MHz FSB.

Intel will release 2 new Celeron M CPUs for the Centrino 2 platform in the form of Celeron M 585 and Celeron M 575 - clocking at 2.16GHz and 2GHz respectively. Both will attribute FSB speed of 667MHz and TDP of 31W.