Keeping up the momentum of its successful Centrino chip for notebook computer, Intel gave the chip a speed upgrade and an added improved multimedia features.

Centrino Mobile Technology will come in a bundle of three chips, a microprocessor, a supporting chipset and a wireless chip. PC makers cannot use the Centrino brand unless they buy the entire bundle of Intel chips.

The new chips that make up the updated Centrino brand, which had been code-named Sonoma, include a more capable Wi-Fi radio, a faster microprocessor and a chipset with more powerful integrated graphics and sound capabilities. It also includes support for faster connections to peripherals like external data storage through a technology called PCI Express.

AMD, on the other hand, will introduce its Turion 64 Mobile Technology chips in the first half this year targeting the highly profitable thin-and-light notebook segment.

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