Intel's Dothan is a cool little shaker

According to Rupert, who seems to have mysteriously got hold of the Intel collateral before anyone else as well as pics, the architectural changes to the chip include an enhanced register access manager, a better data prefetcher, and better power savings too.

As we reported well over a year ago, the chips have 2MB of cache, fly along at 21 watts, and ignoring the numbers for a moment, have megahurts speeds of 2GHz, 1.8GHz and 1.7GHz.

We know that Panasonic and Sony have machines using these new processors lined up, but so far details are under a cloud. Although the Panasonic Tuff Book will cost about $2,400.

Dothan microprocessers use the 90 nanometre process, and are designed in Israel by the rising stars inside Intel. The wireless kit associated with the Pentium M and the chipset which make up Dollarino supports 802.11b and 802.11g. The 2GHz (755) costs $637, the 1.8GHz $423, and the 1.7GHz chip $294, if you are up to buying them in quantities of a 1,000.

Later this year, Intel will move the Dothans to a 533MHz system bus, details are in our roadmap link below.

We'd expect to see some reviews of notebooks using the now very important Pentium M today, tomorrow, and for the rest of the week. µ

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