Intel P55: What we know so far
 

Lynnfield and Havendale don’t have their name right now, but Intel’s Ibex Peak have just got its name “P55″ from Intel’s new roadmap. Of course, P55 shows up in the roadmap doesn’t mean P45 becoming outdated. In November there will be three Core i7 CPU hit the market, but that’s enthusiast market, We believe that P45 will still be the lead until P55 shows up in third quarter next year.

P55 chipest will be single chip design, that means there won’t be any ICH chips anymore. We’ve already saw this kind of design before, the recently launched MCP7A is one of the many. But Intel is still new will this kind of chip design in mainstream-performance market. Hope the integration won’t lead to performance loss. In one of the P55 document Intel saids P55 will be pin capable to other 5 series chipset, this means if manufacturer wants then a single PCB can support multiple chipsets. One of the interesting feature of P55 chipset is there are a thermal sensor bulit in, so we can monitor its thermal status like it is a CPU.

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