They release chipsets so their 1st tier developers can make some serious cash before they come out with a mobo that cannot be approached. Smart business, as Hyman Roth said in Godfather II,.........................I always make my partners money.
This new chipset will have a kick ass BIOS for overclocking, totally radical for Intel. Support for DDRII, as well as the immature DDRIII.
This board will have support for Core Duo CPU's, and Quads. I see now why AMD is pushing for the SSE5 instruction set. They cannot top Intels new 45nm fabrication. So it is a valid way to corner a small area of the market to stay afloat. The same way they came out with 64bit CPU's ahead of Intel. I bet Bill Gates actually owns both of these corporations silently, and watches us all fight to give him our money.



@ any rate, Intels new board will have 2 and 3 32bit PCI designs, as well as 2 x PCI-e x 16 slots. I know I will be using this with Gigastudio 4/ GVI, and 2 x 15DSP / 1 x 6DSP config. Low latency DDRII ( CL3 ), and 2 new 175 USD Raptor X's.
That DAWg'll HUNT !!