Pentium M

Introduced in March 2003, the Pentium M is an x86 architecture microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel and forms part of the Intel Centrino platform. The processor was originally designed for use in laptop personal computers, thus the "M" for mobile. It was codenamed "Banias" before its introduction. The codenames of the Pentium M are all locations in Israel, the location of the Pentium M design team.

Banias

The first Pentium M was identified by the codename Banias. It was manufactured on a 130 nanometer process, was released at frequencies from 1.3 to 1.7 GHz using a 400 MHz FSB (100 MHz quad-pumped), and had 1 MB of Level 2 cache.

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