This weekend, Intel is expected to have one of their most important product launches to date. Intel will be launching six new desktop processors, and the 915/925 chipsets (Grantsdale and & Alderwood). The office debut will be on Monday June 21st. The two new chipsets (915 and 925) will both support DDR2 memory, with a total of three different chipset models being offered. The 915G will come with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, the 915P is designed to work with 3rd party graphics cards (Nvidia & ATI), and finally the 925X will support PCI Express.
Intel will also be launching five new 775-pin Pentium 4 chips, which will be using Intel's new naming system. The five new chips are: 2.8GHz Pentium 4 (520), 3GHz Pentium 4 (530), 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (540), 3.4GHz Pentium 4 (550), and 3.6GHz Pentium 4 (560). It's also expected that Intel will show off another version of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition clocked at 3.4GHz using a 775-pin seat. Though no clock speeds have been announced yet, Intel will also be launching new Celeron models. However, don't expect them to be available for a couple of days after the main products have been released (Pentium 4 and new chipsets).
Lately Intel hasn’t been winning too many battles. Ever since AMD released its Athlon 64 FX 51 Intel has been down and playing catch-up. Sure, they’ve launched the Pentium Extreme Edition, which although has been extremely competitive has come at a steep price. Designed to act as a good chip for competing with AMD’s recent chip releases, limited supply has acted as a bottle-neck for these plans. As time passes by, its probable that Intel will drop the Pentium Extreme Edition from its product line; with this new lineup of goodies Intel is hoping to get back on top. The introduction of new processors and new chipsets (Grantsdale and & Alderwood) might be a good indicator for things looking up for Intel. Do these new releases mean a return to the chip wars? We hope so! A good bit of competition between these two chip monoliths will only mean better prices and better chips for people in the long-run.
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Intel will also be launching five new 775-pin Pentium 4 chips, which will be using Intel's new naming system. The five new chips are: 2.8GHz Pentium 4 (520), 3GHz Pentium 4 (530), 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (540), 3.4GHz Pentium 4 (550), and 3.6GHz Pentium 4 (560). It's also expected that Intel will show off another version of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition clocked at 3.4GHz using a 775-pin seat. Though no clock speeds have been announced yet, Intel will also be launching new Celeron models. However, don't expect them to be available for a couple of days after the main products have been released (Pentium 4 and new chipsets).
Lately Intel hasn’t been winning too many battles. Ever since AMD released its Athlon 64 FX 51 Intel has been down and playing catch-up. Sure, they’ve launched the Pentium Extreme Edition, which although has been extremely competitive has come at a steep price. Designed to act as a good chip for competing with AMD’s recent chip releases, limited supply has acted as a bottle-neck for these plans. As time passes by, its probable that Intel will drop the Pentium Extreme Edition from its product line; with this new lineup of goodies Intel is hoping to get back on top. The introduction of new processors and new chipsets (Grantsdale and & Alderwood) might be a good indicator for things looking up for Intel. Do these new releases mean a return to the chip wars? We hope so! A good bit of competition between these two chip monoliths will only mean better prices and better chips for people in the long-run.
View: More info @ Reuters
From what I have read... and understand.
i915P will be much like the i925X, except for some new performance technologies.
Other i915 chipsets, such as, G, GV and GL will lack some new features. Such as PCI Express x16, DDR2... and other things. The G will have integrated graphics and GL will have 533MHz FSB for future celerons.
I suppose.
Last edited by 52221 on 18 Jun 2004 - 16:12
I believe that 915 and 925x will both support PCI Express.
Alderwood is Canterwoods Successor, it's going to be the new "Premium Chipset".
does this mean desktop will be able to connect to the internet wirelessly now? OR, does it mean that when you buy a desktop computer with this chip and plug ethernet into it, wireless internet will stream out of this computer?
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=179656
Last edited by 335 on 18 Jun 2004 - 17:59
AMD to Intel...... bend over and grab your ankles!
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=179656
Some people don't need anything faster.
Do you need a X880 XT for working with Microsoft Office and Oracle?
It was hard to resist being glib and titling this article, "Much Ado about Very Little". That feeling of disappointment comes from seeing so much new technology introduced all at once, and then finding out the real performance benefit is extremely small - if it exists at all.
http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=2088
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