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Intel to bundle SSDs with Centrino 2 - report
INTEL is to use its new Solid State Drive capability to bundle such a thing with its future Centrino notebook platform, according to Digitimes.
The Taiwanese wire said it'd been told by PC makers that Intel will add SSD products to the Centrino 2 platform (Montevina), by the end of the third quarter this year.
If its sources are to belived the line will be branded Intel High Performance SSD and these will come in two 80GB flavours, a 2.5-incher followed by a 1.8-incher.
The Centrino platform concept includes CPU with graphics and sound chipset, plus the wifi technology. The addition of a storage drive suggests there soon won't be much left for notebbok makers to add to the platfrom other than a plastic case to stick it all in.
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The article says "Intel has named the product line Intel High Performance SSD and will mainly targeting enterprise, mid-range and high-end notebook markets."

So they're not going to try and touch the low-end notebook market with this. Well, I guess it wouldn't be "low-end" any more if they did!
Does this mean we'll be forced to get an SSD on a Centrino 2 laptop? No option for a regular HDD?
Is not that the point of a design "platform" ? If AMD could get their act togeather on the moblie side of their business it would be diffirent but since intel makes processors,network,chipset,graphics and now SSD it behoves them to offor this as a option.

The oems(quanta,compal, etc) still have to design the layout and casing so there is still work to be done there.

Besides AMD has no leverage in the mobile segment since intel has chips top to bottom with Atom thru Montevina they got top to bottom coverage. 

The more SSDs that hit the market the better for pricing and the odd of getting a nice SSD in your next notebook goes up a lot if Intel offers it as part of their platform.

I just wish AMD had something in the moblie area cause otherwise the pirces will still be higher without the added compitition.