Mac News Network has a special report reviewing most of the key slides presented last week at Intel’s Developer Forum.

The focus of Perlmutter’s keynote was on Intel’s new mobile Santa Rosa platform and Intel’s roadmap for mobile WiMAX. It includes a new chip set, graphics, wireless communications and NAND Flash disk caching technology.

Santa Rosa launches in the first half of next year with Core 2 Duo processors, the bus speed increasing from 667 megahertz to 800 megahertz and Crestline, the next generation mobile graphics chipset.

Kedron is the 802.11a/g/n WiFi technology. It supports the draft of 802.11n, delivering 300 Megabits per second.

Kedron is 2X3 MIMO technology, two transmitters, three receivers with enhanced digital processing to transmit and receive those rates. Intel will also integrate Nokia’s HSDPA wideband CDMA technology to deliver wireless WAN solution inside the Santa Rosa platform.

A NAND based disk flash will gives you 2X faster application load and application execution with 2X faster resume from hibernation. It comes also with low power, by eliminating the disk spindle spin-up.

“But the jewel of the crown in wireless connectivity is WiMAX”, said Intel presenter David Perlmutter, Senior Vice President - General Manager, Mobility Group. Mobile WiMAX cards will support all of the ranges of frequencies from 2.5 to 3.5 GHz. This is supported by their Ofer-R radio that really supports all of the major world frequencies.

Service providers who are building fixed WiMAX networks today, can switch later on by using Rosedale 2 and a software release to support mobility. Intel will integrate both Wi-Fi and WiMAX together in their 2008 platforms.

Intel’s WiMAX Group has more technical details (pdf).

Posted by Sam Churchill on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 at 2:18 am.