The upcoming Intel Santa Rosa platform

News from Taiwan board makers said that if everything goes according to plan, Intel's next-generation laptop platform - Santa Rosa will be available in the first half of May. .

The main architecture of Santa Rosa includes: 64-bit Core 2 Duo core chip (codename Merom); Mobile 965 Express chipset (Crestline); Intel Wi-Fi Link 4965AGN wireless module (Kedron); Intel Turbo Memory (Robson) memory modules and WWAN technology modules and WiMAX (Echo Peak).

The Santa Rosa platform will be available to both corporate and individual customers, all equipped with a Core 2 Duo dual-core chip. For individual customers, Santa Rosa will target the high-end market that most of them are integrated with Vista. For the business market, Santa Rosa will have different levels (prices and technical features).

According to analysts, the notebook industry has now grown, but with the emergence of Santa Rosa it may be "heated up". Some new features of Santa Rosa will create business opportunities for other device manufacturers.