Delivering its Bearlake chipset family to the market in the second quarter of 2007, Intel will begin with the Bearlake-P variant, which targets the mainstream market, and the Bearlake-G chipset that includes an integrated graphics processor (IGP), indicated motherboard makers familiar with Intel"s chipset roadmap. Next two products in this family, the Bearlake-X and Bearlake-G+, both to be launched in the third quarter, will support DDR3 memory technology and PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 interface, the makers emphasized.
Targeting digital home applications, the Bearlake-G+ will also support HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) and HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) technologies, according to the makers.