| Intel today announced the release of it's new Dothan mobile processors. These chips belong to the very successful Pentium M family with more than noticable enhancements in the overall architecture.
The Dothan processors are made using the 90nm process technology rather than the 130nm process technology, which was used by the last generation Pentium M chips. This allows less manufacturing costs for Intel, low-power consumption for users, and the continuity of high performance gains. With the use of low-power, the batteries will last longer than the usual amount of time.
The Dothan processors are the first ones to use the 90nm architecture and the 300mm wafer size.
These new chips will feature 2MB L2 cache for performance gains and will consume similar amount of power when compared to the previous line of Pentium M processors, codenamed Banias, however, the Dothans will have slighly higher clock speeds than their counterparts.
Intel originally planned to announce the Dothan processors in Q1 of the current year, but the company was forced to hold back the release date due to circuitry improvements.
The Intel Pentium M 735 processor operates at 1.7 GHz, the 745 chip operates at 1.8 GHz, and the 755 processor features 2.0 GHz clock speed. The prices for these newly released CPUs are $294.00, $423.00, and $637.00 respectively, according to Intel.
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