Intel offer a sneak peek of some of the products it will showcase at next month’sConsumer Electronics Showin Las Vegas at a press briefing in San Francisco Friday . And while most of the titbit offer up by Intel administrator had a decidedly PC - centrical bent grass , there were a few items of interest that hinted at the direction Mac hardware could take in 2008 .
Unlike the names of personal computer and electronics makers — Asus , BenQ , and Lenovo were among the companies cite in passing at Friday ’s briefing — Apple was never explicitly remark by anyone assort with Intel . But the microchip maker is the sole supplier of processors for Mac computer hardware . And while preceding Intel press consequence have featured nary a cite of Apple , the CPU unveiled there have a habit of find out their means into Mac hardware — consider the July 2006 unveiling of the Core 2 twosome processors that wound up in updated Apple laptops later that summer .
laptop again figure to be the most probable Mac beneficiary of the announcements previewed by Intel Friday . The chip Lord preview an update to its Centrino chipset .
Intel’s Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive
Dubbed Santa Rosa Refresh , the upcoming update offers improved graphics and claim vantage of Intel ’s fresh , next - coevals 45 nanometer Hafnium - establish Hi - k Core 2 Duo mobile processor . Intel require the new mobile check , code - named Penryn , to bolster both performance and battery life-time in system that use them . Intel says it will introduce the Santa Rosa Refresh update in January .
Intel ’s Z - P140 PATA Solid - State parkway
Intel introduced the original Santa Rosa chipset this past May . element of that chipset — namely a quicker frontside charabanc and more random-access memory content — were subsequently introduced into the MacBook Pro and MacBook assembly line as well as the latest iMacs .
Also Friday , Intel unveiled a new Cartesian product — a solid - state drive a little bit smaller than a fingernail . The 12 - by-18 - by-1.8 - millimeter Z - P140 PATA Solid - State Drive will be useable to computer hardware makers in 2 GB and 4 GB capacities , though Intel executive pointed out that the Z - P140 can utilise up to four retention chips for a total of up to 16 GB of quick booting , low ability drive space . Intel order the drive is part of its proposed Menlow platform for mobile Internet gadget and ultra roving personal computer .
The company will reveal more contingent of its programme next calendar month , when Intel chief operating officer Paul Otellini delivers a January 7 keynote at CES . A fiddling more than a week later , Apple CEO Steve Jobs will do likewise atMacworld Expoin San Francisco .
