Intel’s digital-home Bearlake G+ to support HDMI and HDCP
Delivering its Bearlake chipset family to the market in the second quarter of 2007, Intel will begin with the Bearlake-P variant, which targets the mainstream market, and the Bearlake-G chipset that includes an integrated graphics processor (IGP), indicated motherboard makers familiar with Intel’s chipset roadmap. Next two products in this family, the Bearlake-X and Bearlake-G+, both to be launched in the third quarter, will support DDR3 memory technology and PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 interface, the makers emphasized.
The forthcoming chipset will not only feature the 1333MHz FSB, but also support DDR3-1333 memory, according to the sources. The Bearlake-G+ will be Intel’s first chipset to support Microsoft DirectX 10 technology, said the sources. In addition to this, the IGP chipset will be able to work with DDR2-800 or maybe even DDR3-1066 memory, and its digital-home properties will include H.264 and VC-1 video codecs, which are both adopted by Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, the sources pointed out.
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