Intel have just published some more details about their ‘tick-tock’ CPU roadmap but there’s nothing in there about Ultra Mobile devices. Again, the information is confusing. Intel say they have 6 Penryn family processors and a total of 15 products in development. I assume that’s 6 ‘families’ each with more than one processor specification. The number 6 tallies with previous reports but Intel had said that the sixth 45nm processor would be for UMPCs. In the new press release there’s no word about Ultra mobile CPU’s or platforms.
“The new UltraMobile CPU is in addition to the first five,” he said. “The first UltraMobile devices we’ll see in the latter part of the year.”
I guess that the new ultra mobile PC processor is going to be part of ‘Penryn’ but is still to be finalised and written into the official roadmap. As there is no single core processor listed in the Penryn range, maybe its going to be a single core ULV version of the notebook ‘mobile’ processor. As before, the timescale is 2008. At least that tallies with the previous reports.
On April 18th we should start to get details about the 2007 platform codenamed McCaslin. Up until now, rumors and suggestions about the specification of the CPU and GPU vary wildly.
