Staggered Shipping Dates

Third Generation Dual-core

Intel 64

Santa Rosa

8/8 - Intel shall eventually issue the Core 2 Duo mobile processor with a different pin layout, which shall be incompatible with the current pin layout of Napa. Mobile Core 2 Duo shall transition from Socket M to Socket P.

More importantly, Core 2 Duo shall be paired with a different chipset, a mobile 965 chipset, codename Crestline. A new chipset means a new platform, in this case, Santa Rosa.

New wireless technologies are on tap for the new platform, including 802.11n MIMO (Multiple-input, Multiple-output) wireless Ethernet.

Robson cache is rumored to accompany the platform. Robson is nonvolatile flash memory included somewhere on the motherboard, and shall speed things up.

Expect the front-side bus (FSB) to be bumped from 667MHz to 800MHz. Sometimes progress consists of slow and steady changes.