Intel to launch 45nm chip for UMPCs

Despite the new models hitting store shelves, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs) just don't seem to be taking off in the enterprise. What could change all that, however, is lower prices, increased performance and longer battery life. And that's exactly what some cutting-edge 45nm CPUs could provide. Intel has announced that in addition to those other five 45nm chips that it has in the pipeline, there's also a sixth, which has been designed with UMPCs in mind. While Intel has announced scant few details about the chip, Ars Technica thinks that this new chip and the rumored "Perryville" might be one and the same: "Perryville is a 45nm single-core (2MB L2 cache) version of Penryn, which is itself a die shrink of the 65nm Merom." Intel claims that the new chip should be shipping in UMPCs by the second half of this year.

For more on the chip:
- head on over to Ars Technica