We are already familiar with Intel expansion rates for bearlake chipsets . To motherboard producers these chipsets are interesting not only by reasonable prices, but also by the extended functionality, or by the moderate energy consumption level .
bearlake chipsets motherboard have official support to 1333 MHz system bus and DDR- 3 memory and also guarantees the support to 45 nm processors penryn generation . We note that the overclocking potential of these motherboards is as minimum not worse than their predecessors.
Associate today explained, why the deliveries of bearlake motherboard on will began directly after the official announcement . Asustek and Gigabyte already began to dispatch on the new Intel motherboard . MSI and ECS Companies lag behind and do not rivals their plan, but they will begin the deliveries of the corresponding motherboard in the official announcement date.
The higher price of new generation motherboard allow producers to increase their incomes before summer ; therefore deliveries will began at the announcement date (Bearlake) . We note again that bearlake chipset is cheaper than its predecessors and they will not possess a large update list .
Gigabyte reported to our associates that 30% of motherboard released by this company in the second quarter will be based on bearlake chipset . To the fourth quarter this year the fraction of such motherboards will reach 70% . Such expansion rates is even higher than the planned by Intel.