by Anton Shilov
11/14/2002 | 10:23 AM
Monday, the 18th of November 2002 will become a hot day for the industry. There are a lot of important announcements scheduled to be made on the date and there are even more interesting things to see at Comdex Fall. First of all, the highly-anticipated NVIDIA’s code-named NV30 VPU is to be finally unveiled on Monday (see this news-story). Secondly, NVIDIA will also showcase the unexpected NV28M chip, a mobile GPU derives from the GeForce4 Titanium (see this news-story). Finally, Intel will unleash its long-awaited E7205, code-named Granite Bay, chipset on the 18th November.
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 will also unveil the E7501 (Plumas 533) soon: it supports 2 Intel Xeon processors, PCI-X bus and dual-channel DDR SDRAM controller. The even more powerful core-logic is Intel’s E7505 (Placer). It has the same feature as the previous one, but also offers AGP 8x slot.
Certain manufacturers of mainboards have already announced their products based on the E7205 and E7505.