As spiffy as your MacBook or MacBook Pro is, there's better stuff around the corner.

According to DigiTimes, Intel will launch its next-generation Centrino notebook platform alongside six new 45-nanometer chips this spring. The new platform, code-named "Montevina", will be officially dubbed Centrino 2 when it debuts at the Computex Taipei 2008 conference, which will be held this June.

The six new 45-nanometer processors, which will run between 2.26 GHz and 3.06 GHz, will all sport a 1066 MHz front-side. The current generation of Intel chips scale up to 2.6 Ghz and operate on an 800 MHz front-side bus.

DigiTimes has also reported that Intel will launch seven new 45-nanometer small form factor processors, similar to the ones used in the MacBook Air, in the third quarter of 2008.

For current MacBook Pro owners, Intel's just-released 45-nanometer Penryn processors -- the last of the Santa Rosa generation -- are expected for release at any time within the next few weeks.

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