The name of Rosa

The manufacturer’s mobile platform, released early next year and dubbed Santa Rosa, will already support the DirectX 10 graphics engine. However, the company claims this is just a novelty out of many.

According to Intel's recently leaked roadmap, the new mobile sheet set is called Crestline (965GM / PM Express) which will already support graphics cores that can take advantage of DirectX 10. There will definitely be a new integrated graphics display, which will probably be similar to the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 (hereinafter referred to as GMA 3000) that works alongside the current desktop card sets. GMA 3000 will be fundamentally different from the current Intel graphics accelerators. In the new core, the "early-Z" technology has been improved, which reduces the chip's memory usage. It will also support 16x anisotropic filtering and 32-bit precision floating-point computation, among others. Last but not least, thanks to the unified shading engine, the GMA 3000 will now support the decoding of H.264 and WMV9b HD materials. Intel's undisclosed goal with the new graphics core is to put even more pressure on the mobile solutions of NVIDIA and ATI, thereby further increasing its market share in this segment.

The manufacturer’s Santa Rosa mobile platform supports 800 MHz system bus speed processors codenamed Merom, a chipset dubbed Crestline that will support DirectX 10 and Shader model 4.0, Intel NAND technology that increases hard drive performance and a new wireless network controller called Kedron that supports the 802.11n standard, enabling data transfer of 600 Mbps per second. Even staying on network devices, the newcomer will already receive the long-awaited 3G and EDGE support, the former allowing data transmission of 2,4 Mbps and the latter 384 kbps. 
The new ICH8M South Bridge, which will handle an IDE, 3 SATA-2, 6 PCIe and 10 USB 2.0 ports, will also be unveiled here for the first time in the field of portable machines. It will also include 2 EHCI controllers and 5 independent power supply modules for USB ports. Of course, there will also be an HD-Audio controller and a gigabit LAN. The South Bridge will come in two versions, with the better-equipped version also supporting RAID 0/1 and Intel Active Management Technology 2.5.  
The new platform is already retiring the BIOS and replacing UEFI instead, with the essence of providing a simpler, faster, and last but not least more secure interface to the operating system. The big advantage is that boot time will be speeded up and driver writers would not be forced to create a separate driver for each platform.

The images are from the HKEPC site