Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/intel_to_revise_mobile_cpu_names/
Intel to revise mobile CPU naming scheme
'Montevina' adjustment
Posted in Hardware, 11th January 2008 11:35 GMT
Intel will revise its naming scheme for mobile processors in Q2, a move that will see the old LV and ULV labels dropped in favour of new processor class prefixes to go with the ones already applied to Core 2 Duo chips.
Intel currently prefixes some mobile processor model numbers with X, T, L and U. To that it's going to add P, SP, SL and SU. P, L and U will be used to denote varying degrees of energy efficiency, while the addition of the S indicates a small-package processor - the 'Silverthorne' UMPC chip, we imagine.
Running down the list, we have X, T, P, L and U, respectively addressing the following power consumption bands: >40W, 30-39W, 20-29W, 12-19W and <12W.
The SP, SL and SU also fit in the 20-29W, 12-19W and <12W bands.
The new codes will be introduced when Intel rolls out 'Montevina' [1], the next generation of its Centrino platform, probably in May.
In due course, Intel will introduce QX chips [2], mobile parts that consume more the 40W of power but have four cores rather than two - X alone will refer to dual-core CPUs.