Intel shows off dual core Pentium Ms

The man running the mobile side of Intel said that a dual core chip, Yonah, using the Calistoga chipset, would be introduced in the relatively near future.

This will use 65 nanometre technology, include hyperthreading, and use VT. It will also use a new type of wireless tech nicknamed Golan, and enable a smaller form factor as well as next generation graphics.

Golan as a codename may not go down a storm with Syrians.

Chandrasekher also said that mobile PC shipments will amount to 47 million units in 2004 and came up with a sentence without an ending, a beginning, a middle. It's the timeless The Future is Coming, It's Happening Now.

Alviso, Sonoma, delayed from the fourth quarter to the first quarter of next year, will work with Cisco, Checkpoint and Nortel to roam to VPNs. He showed Alviso running the World of Warcraft and it was only mildly stuttering.

He said that Intel is still working to improve battery life. While we've got to five hours now, eight hours is in Chipzilla's sights. Future battery technologies using two chemistries will help.

He also announced that version 3.0 of ACPI is on its way, with operating system standard battery calibration, support for dual cores, and reduced power consumption.