Intel brought its mainstream desktop CPU lineup into the Nehalem era today with the launch of the Core i7 860 and 870, and the Core i5 750. Also launched today is the P55 chipset, which implements a ...

At Hot Chips this past week, Intel released more technical details on its coming system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor called Tolapai. Tolapai is Intel's first attempt at an SoC design since its ill-fated ...

A set of chips that provides the interfaces between an Intel CPU and the PC's subsystems. An Intel chipset provides the buses and electronics to allow the CPU, RAM and I/O devices to interact. Most ...

Intel's architecture for the 8xx family of chipsets, starting with the 820. It uses a memory controller hub (MCH) that is connected to an I/O controller hub (ICH) via a 266 MB/sec bus. The MCH chip ...

DDR3 memory systems can provide a significant performance boost to a variety of data processing applications. However, compared to previous generations (DDR and DDR2), DDR3 memory devices have some ...

Poised for next generation test and measurement applications, the PXI-3800, a 3U PXI Pentium M system controller, enlists the most current embedded chipsets: an Intel 855GME graphics memory controller ...

The $412, G4M100-MS12 Mini-ITX motherboard (see the Figure) from ITOX comes with a 479-pin, 1.2-GHz Intel Mobile Celeron processor. It runs a 400-MHz system bus. The processor is supported by the ...