Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and co-general manager of the Intel Mobile Platforms Group, said Dothan will double the Pentium M L2 cache to 2Mbytes and have 140 million transistors. It will be made using 90nm processing and start shipping for revenue in the fourth quarter--which in Intel parlance means limited initial production for customers to design the processor into systems.

A new chipset, code-named Alviso, will be added in the second half of 2004 and together with Dothan will be called the Sonoma platform under the Centrino brand, an Intel spokesman said.

Chandrasekher said Alviso will include a new higher performance integrated graphics engine, PCI Express and Serial ATA interfaces, and a new Intel audio interface called Azalia. The chipset will support DDR2 memory.

More immediately, Intel said a new Centrino 855GME chipset is available now, supporting DDR333 memory for higher graphics performance. The chipset uses a new Display Power Saving Technology that adaptively reduces the display backlight depending on image brightness and contrast.

The IDF presentation also demonstrated a laboratory project that uses a sensor in the display to spot a face viewing the flat panel, and dim the display when the face turns away. Intel gave no estimate when such a feature might find its way into future mobile systems.

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