14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that Intel's future Socket P mobile processor, part of the manufacturer's next generation Santa Rosa mobile platform Socket P processors, will have pins A1 and A2 removed, unlike pins A1 and B1 of current Socket M processors, informs Daily Tech.
Moreover, Intel said that: "Not pin-compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo for Napa, or Intel Core Duo T2500."
"There will be no backwards compatibility with "Socket P," as it will be keyed differently than the current Socket M,' writes Daily Tech.
On the other hand, the Santa Rosa is, in fact, a make-over of the company's well-known Centrino mobile platform which will feature a dedicated chipset and a new technology named Robson. The most important development which will be launched under Santa Rosa umbrella will be a new chipset that will offer a fourth generation integrated graphics core, an enhancement of Intel's current GMA X3000 delivered by the desktop G965 Express chipsets - the Crestline GM965 Express chipset.
Intel recently announced that it will release, by the end of the year, a new chipset, the Rosedale 2, which has been developed to ease access to WiMax from any notebook.
"It promises speeds that outgun cable modems and span distances of several miles from a base station. The implications for business computing could be far reaching. WiMax could allow new competitors into the Internet access market, letting businesses put a fixed WiMax receiver on their buildings as the big pipe for Internet access service, which they then route to employees using existing Ethernet networks," commented Information Week.