Intel’s Release Schedule for New and Old Chipsets

by Anton Shilov
03/26/2003 | 03:56 PM

Adrian’s Rojakpot web-site published an Intel’s internal schedule concerning the forthcoming chipsets tape-out and mass-production start dates. Such information is always correct only for the time being since semiconductor companies constantly adjust their roadmaps according to the current situation on the market, however, the schedule brings us code-names of the upcoming products as well as provides us some additional details about the number of those products.

We already told you about Grantsdale chipsets that will succeed the forthcoming mainstream and corporate Springdale platform. Grantsdale core-logic will implement graphics core that will have native support for two displays. Grantsdale-G A-0 samples are expected to come on the 30th week of 2003, Grantsdale-G A-1 is set to appear on the 43rd week this year and Grantsdale-G A-2 revision should be taped-out by the 4th week of the year 2004.

There will also be a strange Copper River code-named chipset whose A-0 samples will be available in the third quarter of 2003. I believe that the Copper River is the successor of the Canterwood for high-end desktops and workstations.

Alviso-series of chipsets is intended for portability and mobility platforms that will come in the second half of 2004. Alviso will support DDR-II SDRAM memory and PCI Express interconnection. A-0 and A-1 samples of Alviso core-logic products will be available on the 30^th and the 49^th weeks of 2003 respectively, while mass-production will start on the 10^th weeks of 2004, nearly 24 weeks before the actual product-launch.

There are also a couple of mysterious chipsets among the upcoming products. These are Turbowood and Kyrene. I have no idea what Turbowood actually is, but suspect that it may be an even more powerful version of the Canterwood to come later this year, possibly along with the Prescott processor. Unfortunately, I can assume nothing about Intel’s Kyrene, which B-1 samples should now be available.

For the whole release schedule of Intel’s new and old chipsets refer to this page over at Adrian’s Rojakpot web-site.