As source reports, intel company concludes the works on its mobile platform santa rosa and its release as before is planned during May.
However, basic question here is not the anoncement time , but the chipset possibility , which will possess big enough 3d- power, since it has the built-in video core will have support to directX 10.
Industrial sources confirmed the information from TG daily about the fact that GM965 will be capable of working with directX 10 applications . This circumstance must help GM965 to become mass and popular, and Intel conquer the market for mobile chipsets with the built-in video (IGC).
The new intel platform with directX 10 support will work paired with processors on core merom series core 2 Duo 7000 (FSB 800 MHz). Chipset GM965 has the principle use of general memory and it can get between 8 to 64 mb from the system memory for the work of video.
Then, during May, it is expected the release of processors intel t7100 (1,8 GHz), t7300 (2,0 GHz), t7500 (2,2 GHz) and t7600 (2,4 GHz), and soon after their anoncement are expected the low-voltage models: L7500 with frequency 1,6 GHz and L7300, which works at frequency 1,4 GHz.