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Centrino 2: delayed until mid-July
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Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on May 28, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/28-05-2008/#9689

Intel has confirmed the delay of the Centrino 2 Montevina platform to July 14th for versions equipped with chipsets that do not integrate graphic circuits. For those equipped with an IGP, we will have to wait until August 5th.

The causes are the ones we mentioned yesterday; validation problems for the 802.11n module and production issues with G(M)4x chipsets which have a GPU. For once, manufactures will not have any other choice but to use a third party GPU to launch their new models which won’t necessarily be a bad thing for everyone.

Some even esteem that AMD will doubly benefit as this will give them more time for their Puma platform. It’s planned for early June according to the latest news and aims to take back shares in the laptop market.