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CHIP GIANT Intel has notified its partners about the specs of its up-and-coming Alderwood chipsets, which support Socket T, the 775 LGA socket that's in the pipeline, so to speak.
The Alderwood, the document seen by the INQ says, has a new memory controller hub (MCH) backbone, and as expected these support DDR-2 dual channel memory.
The architecutre supports asynchronous and isochronous data, with dedicated internal pipelines, and Intel is touting better electricals with optimised ball out and an extra "bypass" (eek) enabled.
The MCH uses a 1210 flip chip ball grid array, while the different ICHs in the shape of ICH6, ICH6R, ICH6W and ICH6RW use a 609 micro BGA package.
A home grown version of PCI Express, known as the direct media interface (DMI) links the MCH to the IO controller hub, and this is claimed to deliver 2GB/s bandwidth compared to the old and feeble 266MB/s.
There's other support for High Definition audio with eight independent DMA "audio engines", and, as expected, support for Dolby up to 7.1, four S-ATA controllers for both HDDs and for optical drives.
Alderwood also includes an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) which Intel claims will give faster boot times and transfer rates of up to 150MB/s.
It supports RAID 0 and RAID 1, integrated.
It's confirmed that ICH6 will have an integrated wireless access point
Source:
The INQ!
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