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WTF is centrino?

Originally posted by: notfred
Other than being a laptop w/ a wireless NIC, what makes it special?
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It's the low power chipset from Intel. Supposed to be much more low power than the mobile p3 chips.
Bill
 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Originally posted by: notfred
Other than being a laptop w/ a wireless NIC, what makes it special?
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It's the low power chipset from Intel. Supposed to be much more low power than the mobile p3 chips.
Bill
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you can get both the p3 and the chipset without the wireless nic and you still won't be "centrino"
 
Originally posted by: BCYL
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: notfred
Other than being a laptop w/ a wireless NIC, what makes it special?
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I can't believe you post here in OT and don't bother to read the front page; you'd find everything you needed to know right there:

Intel's Centrino CPU (Pentium-M): Revolutionizing the Mobile World
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Shows you how many people only come to the forums and never visits anandtech.com...
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Hell, once i discovered the Links folder in IE could be a toolbar, i haven't even had to type the address in.
 
1MB 8 way set associative cache sounds like a lot for a mobile processor.
I assume they do some sort of way prediction or read the tags first, to avoid having to read all 8 ways together with the tags comparison. They also seem to be reading only the part of the L2 cache line needed to fill the L1 cache line.
 
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