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When Intel unveils new processors, it usually rattles off the names of PC makers who’ve signed on to use the latest chips. There is one exception, however—Apple’s name usually comes up only in passing at these events, if it’s even mentioned at all.

But make no mistake: Apple may have been a no-show at Monday night’s launch event for Intel’s new Centrino 2 processor technology while demo laptops from HP, Lenovo, Sony and Toshiba showed off the new chips. But Intel’s announcements should be of interest to Mac users, as many of the Centrino 2’s improvements will likely make their way into Mac systems in the near future.

Since the Centrino is a mobile chipset, Mooly Eden, Intel’s vice preseident and general manager of the mobile platforms group, spent much of his presentation discussing power saving features new to the Centrino 2, which is code-named Montevina. Among the power saving improvements made to the Centrino 2 was something Eden refered to as HUGI—as in, hurry up and get idle. A processor draws less power when idle, so the faster the processor can wake up, finish the task and return to its resting state, the less battery power it consumes. And with Intel’s Deep Power Down Technology, idling processor components should draw even less power, the company says.

Very cool, we’ll have to see what product innovation Apple bring to their platform using the new Intel processors.

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