The worshippers of union "chipset ATI + processor Intel"was distressed due to the circumstance that next year ATI will not produce chipset for intel platform next year, giving preference to the production of AMD chipset platform . Situation was aggravated by uncertainty with the periods of the announcement of chipset RD600. it seemed that ATI will not produce nothing new for Intel platform .
This impression was destroyed yesterday from Canadian company , announcing the Radeon Xpress 1250 chipset , that ensures the support of Intel processors . chipset will be existed in the table of mobile versions; however, the latter will have the priority value. This chipset possesses the built-in graphic core witch support DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 2.0. It is assumed, that the graphic core of this chipset possesses characteristics close to the Radeon X700. Earlier this chipset was known under the code designation RS600M.
this chipset will ensures support to 16 Gb memory of type Ddr2-400/533/667/800. about the support of dual -channel regime there is nothing to communicates. the graphic core can used from 16 mb. to 512 mb of system memory. Under it s needs . The external interface PCI Express x16 is also supported, as six lines PCI Express x1. the south bridge SB600 ensure support to ten ports USB 2.0, four ports Sata-300, one port Pata-133, the integrated sound of class HDA, interface PCI and different regimes RAID.
The graphic core of chipset Radeon Xpress 1250 supports decoding Mpeg-2, Mpeg-4, H.264 and WMV9. to realization on the motherboard the HDMI 1.2 port was used the external chip TMDS as support of port DVI. there is a provided video protection from the unsanctioned copying on algorithm HDCP 1.1. this chipset has the built-in TV- decoder, which allows torealize video output.
Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 supports a series of energy-saving technologies. notbook on the base of this chipset has already been assembled and release by NEC company .