Posted on Tuesday, June 02 2009 @ 17:42 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
claims Intel has scheduled the P57 chipset for the final quarter of this year. The chip will be pin compatible with the P55 chipset, which is good news for motherboard makers.
This is also the reason why there are so many P55 motherboards with ONFI support, despite the fact that the chipset doesn't actually support it and we'll have to wait for the P57 before we'll see any retail boards with this feature.
Expect the P57 to be the major performance platform from Intel later this year, as we've been told that the Core i7 and X58 will be limited to Extreme Edition CPU's once the Core i5 platform starts to take off and as such the P57 chipset combined with a high-end Core i5 will replace the none Extreme Edition Core i7's.
