According to the information, obtained by our source from Taiwan motherboard producers , the first deliveries of chipset family bearlake will begin during May of the present year. The first chipsets of new generation will become P35 and G33.
In the third quarter the assortment Of Intel will supplement G31, solution of the initial level, in which there no support to the 1333 MHz FSB frequency and four core processor processors.
Furthermore, in this year will be released also the oriented to the extreme gamer X38, designed for application in the corporate sector Of q35/33 and chipsets with the functional integrated graphic core g35.
Prices for motherboard producers will be located in the range from 30 dollars for G31 to 50 dollars for X38. This is considerable, but a lot cheaper than chipsets NVIDIA.
To the end of the present year Intel expects to bring the portion of family bearlake in the structure of sales of its chipsets to 40%.
At the same time, the dispatches of budget Intel 865 will be brought to zero in the second quarter of 2007, and their place in the segment of cheap chipset will engage Intel 945/946.