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posted on 23 May 2008 18:25

Intel's fifth-generation Centrino notebook specfication will include the use of its SSDs according to a DigiTimes report.

Centrino is Intel branding that applies when certain Intel components are used in a notebook computer, such as CPU, support chipset, WiFi chips and flash memory. It has gone through four iterations with a fifth one, code-named Montevina, due later this year.

It previously specified the Penryn Core 2 Duo CPU, Mobile Intel 4 Series Express chipset, certain DRAM chip types, NAND flash cache memory - Robson - and a Gigabit Ethernet controller.

The next generation, code-named Calpella and due in 2009, specified SSD support. It looks as if that has now been brought forward.

Montevina will incorporate Intel's High Performance SSD line using Client X25-M (2.5-inch format) and Client X18-M (1.8-inch format) NAND flash chips with 80GB capacity and a SATA 3Gbit/s interface. Capacities will reach 160GB by the end of 2008, and pass through the 256GB level in 2009.

Consumers may think that Centrino branding refers to just the CPU, but they are wrong.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}