Intel announces 4 Series desktop chipset family

Intel has four new desktop chipsets to show off from this year’s Computex trade show in Taiwan. The G45 and the G43 focus on HD video playback by way of a new Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD integrated graphics chip. The P45 brings support for faster memory and is the first mainstream Intel-made chipset with two graphics card slots. A scaled-down P43 chipset rounds out the new 4 Series.

All of the chipsets use Intel’s familiar LGA 775 processor interface, which means support for Intel’s Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad desktop CPUs. Intel has also added a 1,333MHz front side bus to each chipset, as well as support for DDR3 RAM, as well as DDR2 or DDR3 RAM at speeds up to 1,333MHz.

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Intel unveils new 4 series chipset at Computex

At the Intel keynote today at Computex, EVP Sean Maloney officially unveiled the new 4 Series chipsets and prognosticated a bright, high definition future delivered via WiMAX.

Intel Larrabee @ SIGGRAPH 2008

Starting in August, part of the shroud of mystery around Larrabee is going to dissipate: A paper called ‘Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual Computing‘ will be presented at SIGGRAPH by its authors, which include Doug Carmean, Tom Forsyth, Michael Abrash, Pat Hanrahan and many others.

The paper’s abstract describes Larrabee as using ‘multiple in-order x86 CPU cores that are augmented by a wide vector processor unit, as well as fixed-function co-processors. This provides dramatically higher performance per watt and per unit of area than out-of-order CPUs on highly parallel workloads and greatly increases the flexibility and programmability of the architecture as compared to standard GPUs.’

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