Intel Calpella

So, with the latest and greatest Intel Centrino Platform on the horizon, I was wondering, what will be replacing the GMA 4500m HD?

Are there any preliminary specs?

Also, what can we expect from this platform in terms of performance, battery life, and form factors?

Lastly, will it be named similary to it's desktop counterparts? (ie. Core i3?)

 

Well in keeping with the i3/i5/i7 announcements unless your buying a WLAN card for your laptop it probably wont say Centrino on it anyways.

 

Yeah, I guess it makes sense.

 

Well they said centrino is moving to wireless products only (wasnt sure if u heard) Said something about mobile i7, and something out about how the three are entry level, mid range, high end.

Though if i7 will remain as high end they better have something coming out before i5, because initial desktop i5 shows more promise then desktop i7.

 

Yes it will be i3, i5, i7. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3585

 

So, there are going to be processors with on-die graphics, AND processors with a separate IGP (like today's platform) that are connected by the QPI (quick path interconnect)?

I wonder how the two would compare.

 

Last i check larrabee is far off and definitely not a part of this platform.

 

Ahh, ok. I read some information wrong.

The IGP is off-die, but in the same CPU package.

 

Trust me, I've been trying hard to find the info on these, but Intel got the art of keeping secrets right, and its almost impossible to find it. No, there's no info on the Arrandale. Considering the little info we have about Lynnfield and Clarksfield based Calpella mere weeks from launch, you probably won't see any info until at least Fall IDF and probably till November.

-Preliminary specs?

Nothing

-Also, what can we expect from this platform in terms of performance, battery life, and form factors?

Not much more info than that it should be better in all 3 at least a little bit

-Lastly, will it be named similary to it's desktop counterparts? (ie. Core i3?)

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3585

According to the link above from Anandtech, yes. Most of the CPUs should be named Core i7 or i5 regardless whether its a dual core or a quad core, but a quad core would have higher number rating(for example, i7 870 for quad core vs i7 780 for dual core). The Core i3's without Turbo will likely be Pentium Dual Core replacements, meaning value segment.

 

Integration of the GPU onto the same package as the CPU will result in lower power requirements and lower heat dissipation. So we should see longer battery life and thinner/quieter designs. SSDs will help spur thinner/quieter designs as well, though they will not really begin to hit mainstream until late 2010 at earliest, and adoption starting to pick up more rapidly in 2011.

I'm personally looking forward to Q1 2010, there will be some nice notebooks out with arrandale and SSDs will be priced at a point I can handle given the size and performance I want out of them. Calpella w/arrandale will be a bigger jump than Montevina was.

 

Arrandale and Calpella are more about performance than power consumption. The platform level TDP is about the same for two as chipset power consumption decreases, but CPU power consumption offsets it as it now integrates more. We'll perhaps see slight power consumption decrease, but it'll be completely be ignored in light of the performance changes.