Centrino

Centrino was a brand name of Intel Corporation which represented its Wi-Fi and WiMAX wireless computer networking adapters.

The old platform-marketing brand name covered a particular combination of mainboard chipset, mobile CPU and wireless network interface in the design of a laptop.

Industry-watchers initially criticized the Carmel platform for its lack of support for IEEE 802.11g, because many independent Wi-Fi chip-makers like Broadcom and Atheros had already started shipping 802.11g products.

Carmel could attain or exceed the performance of older Pentium 4-M platforms, while allowing for laptops to operate for 4 to 5 hours on a 48 W-h battery.

The codename Napa designates the third-generation Centrino platform, introduced in January 2006 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show.

The Santa Rosa platform comes with dynamic acceleration technology, allowing single threaded applications to execute faster.

Santa Rosa performs well as a mobile gaming platform due to its ability to switch between single threaded and multithreaded tasks.

The wireless chipset update was originally intended to include WWAN Internet access via HSDPA (3.5G), (codenamed Windigo) co-developed with Nokia.

It was scheduled for release at Computex Taipei 2008, which took place on June 3–7, 2008,[12] but was delayed until July 15, due to problems with integrated graphics and wireless certification.

Though originally scheduled to premiere in Q3 2009 with the second iteration of Nehalem processors,[15] Intel had stated that due to pressure from computer manufacturers, they would delay the release of the platform until at least October 2009 (Q4 2009) to allow OEM partners to clear excess inventory of existing chips.