Intel's Centrino platform combined with Pentium M chips is a success story. Pentium M chips consumes less power and performs significantly better than the normal Mobile Pentium 4 processor. Today we covered a report hinting that AMD will add a low-end Athlon64 2700+ Mobile processor to it's produce line. Please read AMD to introduce low-powered Athlon64 2700+ Mobile processor report for more details.

To further compete with AMD and to give affordable solutions to it's customers in the mobile market, Intel announced four new models of it's Pentium M chips this morning at Intel Developer's Forum in Tokyo, Japan. These models include 1.3Ghz (Pentium M), 1.1Ghz (Pentium M), 900Ghz (Celeron M), and 1.4Ghz (Celeron M) processors.

Intel's 1.3Ghz Pentium M chip consumer 12W of power, 1.1Ghz processor consumes 7W of power, 900Mhz processor consumes 7W of power as well, and lastly, Intel's 1.4Ghz processor takes in 24.5W of power. These processors were developed in Intel's Santa Clara research facility and utilizes Intel's 0.13-Micron architecture.

The newly released 1.3Ghz and 1.1Ghz processors comes with 1MB of L2 cache while the 1.4Ghz and 900Mhz Celeron M processors comes with 512KB of L2 cache. All these models use 400Mhz power-optimized front side frequency bus. The power-optimized system bus feature shares the CPU operation to lessen the load on the processor, which also results in less power consumption, according to Intel.

AMD's Athlon64 2700+ processor will still be a viable solution because it's based on AMD 64-bit computing architecture and it operates at higher clock cycles. AMD shouldn't have to worry about these four models from Intel as long as they keep the prices comparable to Intel's newly released 1.3Ghz, 1.1Ghz, 900Mhz, and 1.4 Cemelron M processors.

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