The announcement of chipset Intel X48 should take place in the second-half of March. In the second quarter we should also meet the chipset series Eaglelake, the most interesting one is the discrete Intel P45. when will appear first products on its basis?
We note that motherboards on base of Intel P45 already exist, and also overclock rather well 45 nm processors Core 2 duo. The main update will become the PCI Express 2.0 support. There is two slots PCI Express x16 witch work according to PCI Express x8 + PCI Express x8. New south bridges series ICH10 Will appear , but it will not bring any revolutionary update . Intel P45 motherboard support Ddr3-1333 and Ddr2-800, then users can make selection in favor of the cheaper memory type .
First chipset Eaglelake family will appear in June this year, in exhibition Computex 2008. The first-born will become the discrete Intel P45, and the integrated products Intel G45 and G43 will be released later. We note that in the current Intel road map version , the announcement of these chipset is as before planed for the second quarter .