“Intel’s next generation notebook chip is due to be announced today alongside Conroe, the corresponding desktop chip. Merom will be marketed as the Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile and is destined to replace the current 2MB Yonah chips found in MacBook Pros,” Jason D. O’Grady blogs over on ZDNet.
“Merom comes with a 667 MHz frontside bus and 4 MB of L2 cache, double the 2 MB found in current MacBook Pros. Intel is offering Merom in 2.0, 2.16 and 2.33GHz clock speeds, a perfect fit to drop into the MacBook Pro lineup,” O’Grady writes. “A source I spoke with mentioned that Apple already has Merom chips in hand and has been testing them for a while. They’re probably waiting for inventory of existing MacBook Pros to sell down and/or for the official announcement to come from Intel.”
O’Grady writes, “Apple will probably roll out the new Merom MacBook Pros some time in late August.”
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