Back in 2003 Intel introduced its highly successful Centrino branding for notebook platforms. The platform used Pentium M CPUs based on Banias and Dothan cores and good performance coupled with excellent battery life made this platform quite successful.
Centrino was not only the Pentium M, it was the Mobile 855 chipset with “Extreme Graphics 2” and Intel PRO/Wireless 2100B card codenamed Calexico. Centrino was a three in one platform. In 2005 Intel released the Sonoma platform, Napa followed in 2006, while Santa Rosa got introduced in 2007 and Montevina was launched in 2008.
As of January 2010 Intel has changed its mind and and has decided to use Centrino names for Wireless. All the Wireless stuff that Intel uses from now on will get a Centrino brand.
The Condor Peak, Puma Peak and Kilmer Peak wireless product lines have adopted the Centrino brand name.
The Condor Peak 1x2bgn becomes Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000, Puma Peak 2x2agn becomes Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200, Kilmer Peak 2×2 becomes Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 and Puma Peak 3x3agn becomes Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300.
The Core brand will be used to help end users pick the right notebook, as Pentium is old but still good, Core i3 is ok, Core i5 is better and Core i7 is the best.
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By Tony Tran in Wed, Mar 10, 2010
Hardware