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TrustedReviews takes an in-depth look at Intel’s Santa Rosa platform and what it will mean for mobile computing.

Santa Rosa will feature an all new Core 2 Duo chip with a number of enhancements over the outgoing processor. Like the Merom chip before it, the new Core 2 Duo will feature up to 4MB of on-die cache, but there are plenty of other changes. First up, the new chip utilises an 800MHz Front Side Bus, while the outgoing one was limited to a 667MHz FSB. This will speed up overall system performance, although there’s more to the new FSB than just its speed.

You’ll want to check out the entire article over at TrustedReviews.