by Anton Shilov
11/18/2002 | 07:50 PM
Intel today officially introduced its long-awaited E7205 chipset also known as GraniteBay. The industry was expecting the newcomer impatiently since its performance should be close or even higher to that of the i850E core-logic with lower price of the final personal computer system.
Intel`s E7205 chipset supports 400 and 533MHz Quad Pumped Bus of the Pentium 4 processors, can take advantage of the Hyper-Threading technology support, provides AGP 8x and dual-channel PC1600/2100 DDR SDRAM memory. The peak bandwidth offered by dual-channel PC2100 is 4.2GB per second, exactly equals to 533MHz Quad-pumped Pentium 4 bus. The North Bridge (or MCH) works in collaboration with the ICH4 I/O controller, supporting USB 2.0 and other necessary features. <%BANNER[article]%>
Intel E7205 core-logic set is priced at $57 in 1000 units quantities, more than $10 compared to i850E chipset. Nevertheless, systems based on the Granite Bay will cost significantly less compared to a PC with i850E inside. Currently PC2100 DDR SDRAM memory is very cheap, while PC1066 RDRAM is still times expensive compared to DDR.
The novelty is intended for entry-level workstations. A lot of mainboard manufacturers as well as personal computer vendors already started to offer E7205 powered products.
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