The severe economy has made it a worldwide trend not to throw away culled chips but use them in low-end products. They can have few pipelines, execution units, little cache, or they may not even support ceiling clocks, but the developers anyway try to find a niche for such chips. Such products are a good chance for the marketers to show their creativity! It's simple to speak about ultra-fashionable solutions, and it's quite a problem to outline advantages of such crippled samples. Today we are testing a new chipset from Intel for the Socket 478 platform (for Pentium 4) - i848P. If you do not remember the block diagram Intel uses for all chipset for the last 3-4 years, have a look at the i848P - it looks beautiful and colorful and shows a lot of clever words :).



Link: Digit-Life