Intel's Centrino
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTA082
Case Length : 11 Pages
Period : 2000 - 2003
Organization : Intel
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available Countries : Global
Industry : Information Technology, SemiConductors
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The Intel Centrino brand signifies a new generation of mobile PCs that will change where and how people compute. Whether at work, at home, at an airport or a café, Centrino mobile technology will bring the freedom and flexibility of being unwired.
- Pam Pollace1, Vice President and Director, Corporate Marketing Group, Intel.
Introduction
In early 2003, Craig Barrett (Barrett), the CEO of Intel was reviewing the prospects for his company's new mobile technology, branded as Centrino. The Intel Centrino brand represented a microprocessor (formerly code-named "Banias"), related chipsets and Wi-Fi2 wireless networking capability.
This was the first time Intel had branded a combination of technologies under one name. Centrino enabled extended battery life. Intel believed the product was ideally suited for a range of thinner, lighter notebooks that delivered outstanding performance to satisfy the needs of mobile computing. Barrett wondered how the market would receive Intel's latest offering.
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Background Note
Centrino was Intel's new technology designed specifically for mobile computing with a built-in wireless LAN capability. It also enabled extended battery life and sleek, easy-to-carry notebook computers. This was Intel's first integrated computing technology designed from scratch for wireless notebook PCs...
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