Slated for release in Q1 2011, Intel's Cougar point and Sandy Bridge products are set to replace the existing Lynnfield/Clarkdale-Ibex Peak combination. The "Premium and Mainstream" desktop chipsets based on Cougar Point architecture will be called the P67 and H67.
The P67 and H67 will take over the "Premium and Mainstream" market segment currently dominated by the P55 and H57 chipsets. This is necessary given that the future Sandy Bridge processors will be rolled-out on LGA1155 sockets, as opposed to the existing LGA1156 socket used for the Lynnfield and Clarkdale Core i3 and i5 (and also i7-8xx) processors.
To differentiate the products, H67 will support x16 PEG only, while P67 will support either x16 PEG or 2x8 PEG. Motherboard makers will no doubt get creative with these chipsets. On top of PEG expansion, both chipsets will support x8 PCIe 2.0, and 14 USB 2.0 Ports. No, USB Super Speed isn't on the roadmap just yet. 2 SATA 6Gb/s ports will be present on both these chipsets, out of the total 6 SATA expansion ports. There will not be PCI support with these chipsets.
Notable for the Intel H67 is the HD Graphics Support, which allows two independent displays, Integrated Audio Codec and Gigabit Ethernet MAC.
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the next generation microarchitecture Sandy Bridge will be released in 2011. There will be two platforms, each of which succeeds Lynnfield and Bloomfield respectively. The basic system architecture is close to Lynnfield/Clarkdale (not to the current Bloomfield).
Sandy Bridge H2:
The new socket LGA 1155
2 cores (65W) or 4 cores (95W)
With or without GPU core
Dual channel DDR3-1333 memory controller
PCI Express 2.0 20 lanes (Xeon only) or 16 lanes; x16 or x8+x8
DMI(Direct Media Interconnect) Gen.2 x4 (4GB/sec)
Chipset Cougar Point:
SATA 6Gbps x 2 and 3Gbps x 4
USB 3.0 will be postponed until Ivy Bridge in 2012.
Sandy Bridge B2:
The new socket LGA 136x
6 cores or 8 cores
No GPU core
Triple channel DDR3-1600 memory controller
PCI Express 3.0 24 lanes; x16+x8 or x8+x8+x8
DMI(Direct Media Interconnect) Gen.2 x4 (4GB/sec)
Chipset Patsburg:
SATA 6Gbps x 2 and 3Gbps x 4
USB 3.0 will be postponed until Ivy Bridge in 2012.
As for integrated graphics, Next Generation Intel Clear Video Technology will be introduced (as well as Graphics Turbo+ for mobile).
zdroj: www.xtremesystems.org
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