Intel Corporation’s Executive Vice President Sean Maloney unveiled at the Computex Show the new Intel 3 Series Chipset family, as well as plans that surround the Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad processors for home and business PC users.
“The Intel 3 Series Chipsets, formerly codenamed “Bearlake” enable exceptional PC performance while helping to enable improved energy efficiency, system design and quietness. Computers with these chipsets can deliver CE-like video and sound quality and new data security and manageability features for business users and will be the foundation for Intel’s next-generation Intel Viiv processor technology and Intel vPro processor technology, codenamed Salt Creek and Weybridge, respectively,” Intel’s press release says.
The Intel 3 Series Chipsets are compatible with DDR2 up to 800MHz, or DDR3 memory with data transfer speeds up to 1333 MHz. The chipsets have PCI Express 2.0, which doubles the available bandwidth for graphics cards. Intel “Bearlakes” also support Intel Turbo Memory which enables faster application loading and boot times.
The Intel 3 Series chipsets include versions with integrated graphics called the Intel G33 and G35 Express Chipsets.
Vice President Maloney said the 3 Series chipsets are additionaly designed to be used with the company’s upcoming Intel 45 nanometer (nm) “Penryn family” processors expected later this year.
The Intel G33 and P35 Express Chipsets have been shipping since April, while the Intel Q33 and Q35 Express Chipsets are shipping now ahead of their Q3′07 introduction. The Intel G35 Express Chipset and the advanced Intel X38 enthusiast chipset with dual graphics support will ship within 90 days.
Maloney also disclosed plans for an Intel Core 2 Extreme laptop processors to be released in the third quarter of this year.
