When DailyTech stopped by ECS's Computex booth today, we found a notebook sitting by itself with no name tag or description whatsoever. We asked a few ECS reps if they had any inclination as to what was powering this mysterious 15.4" notebook, but no one knew its true identity -- that is until we grabbed an ECS Asia Pacific (APAC) Notebook Product Manager. He informed us that the nameless notebook was based on Intel’s upcoming Santa Rosa platform which replaces Napa.

Intel's Santa Rosa platform, which is due out in Q1 2007, supports Merom-based Core 2 Duo processors. Santa Rosa will also use a new wireless networking chip codenamed Kedron to replace the venerable Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG card. Kedron will be based on the 802.11n networking protocol and will be backwards compatible with 802.11a/b/g. The Santa Rosa platform will also feature Robson technology. Robson allows NAND flash memory to be used on the motherboard to cache critical OS system files. As a result, boot times are decreased 4-5 times that over current systems.

It should be interesting to see how much battery life and performance can be increased by using Robson technology in addition to flash-based hard drives as demonstrated by Samsung. The future is definitely looking bright for us mobile users out there.