Intel’s Santa Rosa Notebook Platform Delayed (Now Due March 2007)
Intel has bumped the Santa Rosa notebook platform off the roadmaps for 2006 and into 2007 to help give ODM’s more time to make the chassis and ramp up Napa production. Intel is hoping that the Santa Rosa notebook platform will help boost global notebook shipments pass 100-million units in 2007. If you don’t own a notebook now you more than likely will be the end of the decade!
Santa Rosa will be based on Intel?s forthcoming new dual-core notebook processor Merom which boasts 64-bit computing capability, said the sources, noting that the new platform will also feature enhanced wireless connectivity. Intel and Taiwan notebook makers had originally targeted to roll out Santa Rosa-based notebook by the end of 2006, but have recently re-scheduled the launch date to March 2007, the sources noted, adding that the new schedule allows Taiwan makers more time to develop notebooks based on the new platform.
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