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By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: March 7, 2006, 3:09 PM PT Intel on Tuesday gave a name to the next-generation chip innards at the foundation of its counterattack against Advanced Micro Devices: the Intel Core microarchitecture. Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner unveiled the name and several performance and power details of processors using the design at the Intel Developer Forum here. The architecture, derived from the design of the Pentium M processor, puts a major emphasis on lowering power consumption and the older priority of boosting performance. "Energy is on everyone's mind. It's the next frontier. Not only has it become a critical concern in our daily lives, it's become a critical concern in ...

By Tom Krazit, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: March 7, 2006, 3:58 PM PT Intel unveiled a new generation of its Centrino notebook technology as well as the ultramobile PC during afternoon keynote speeches at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday. As previously reported, Santa Rosa is the code name for the next iteration of Centrino, which is a combination of a mobile processor, chipset and wireless chip, said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and head of Intel 's Mobility Group. Santa Rosa will arrive in the first half of 2007, according to Maloney, though sources have put the expected launch around March of that year. Santa Rosa will accommodate the Merom processor that's expected to launch later this year but will feature a new ch...