road-runner Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 Intel reportedly to postpone X48 chipset launch due to X38 Intel was originally going to launch the X48 chipset in January next year, however the company may postpone the chipset launch by 1-2 months because one of the first-tier motherboard makers still holds a large volume of X38 chipset inventory, according to sources at motherboard makers. The motherboard maker fears that the X48 chipset will slow down clearance of its X38 chipset inventory and has negotiated with Intel to delay the launch of its X48 chipset. However the delay is expected to hurt makers who do not have an overstock X38 chipsets. Each motherboard maker has already received X48 A1 test samples from Intel and sent back 10 motherboards for debugging. The original mass production schedules were set between the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008. In addition to DDR3 1600 memory support, the X48 chipset will also support Intel XMP (extreme memory profile) technology, to automatically optimize performance with memory modules that support XMP. Intel did not respond for comment at the time of publication. Source Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbrown23 Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 Source wow that had to be a big name motherboard maker to delay a better chipset. I bet the other motherboard makers will be pretty angry though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 wow that had to be a big name motherboard maker to delay a better chipset. I bet the other motherboard makers will be pretty angry though. I bet its Gigabyte or Asus.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchuwato Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 That's quite amusing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rehit Posted December 19, 2007 Posted December 19, 2007 i bet it is them as well since they are actually the same corporation at the root. people who have more than 50% of the market share can get things done when needed. it is just corporate "good sense" if there is such a thing... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolMaster Posted December 20, 2007 Posted December 20, 2007 ugh pci-e2.0 i wonder what the actual advantage will be for it, going pci-e2.0 i mean Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchuwato Posted December 20, 2007 Posted December 20, 2007 ugh pci-e2.0 i wonder what the actual advantage will be for it, going pci-e2.0 i mean Double teh bandwidth from 2.5GT/s to 5GT/s Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 also heard some grubling about this being tied to the 45nm fight with nvidia and the SLI licensing. not sure how true that is though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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