Many reported that the south bridges Intel series ICH10 will lose the support to PCI, PS / 2, COM and LPT. However, associate explained today with reffernce to Taiwanese manufacturers, that the south bridges series ICH10 will have a little differences from predecessors. There will be a PCI slots and support for up to four units on a single motherboard.
With regard to innovation, they will be highly conditional or small. For example, the base south bridge ICH10 first will receive the support to AHCI hardware that would enable it to realize all the benefits of NCQ technology and the possibility of hot swap with SATA interface. Earlier this possibility is provided only for south bridges with R suffix .The South bridges series ICH10 will support six ports SATA-300, with the possibility of selective disconnection, as well as external eSATA interface. Potential organizations of RAID disk arrays remains the same is the mode 0, 1, 5, 10, and the Rapid Recover.
South bridges series ICH10 will get the improved remote administration functions (AMT), and information security (TPM). South Bridge ICH10DO will receive the function of signal system on VoIP channel .
Remember that the south bridges series ICH10 will be used in pair with north bridges Tylersburg to support Nehalem processors generation . In future, the south bridge part can disappear, as many functional blocks from the north bridge will move in the processor.