Intel announces P965 Core 2 Duo chipset, sub-1 watt processor

Morshad published 06 Jun 2006, 14:49 in main - 195 views

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Taipei (Taiwan) - Intel senior vice president Anand Chandrasekher officially introduced the P965, a chipset that will be offered for various computer platforms based on Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo E6000 processor ("Conroe"). Chandrasekher also said that Intel will be offering a new ultra-low voltage version of its current Core Duo processor, which will consume less than 1 watt on average.

Intel is counting down the days until the launch of its new Core microarchitecture - industry sources recently suggested that Intel will introduce the desktop version Conroe on 23 July - so it's no surprise that we will be seeing lots of Core 2 Duo systems at Computex. In his opening day keynote, Chandrasekher officially announced not that much, but at least another puzzle piece of the Core 2 Duo environment.

P965, formerly code-named "Broadwater," is one chipset that will be available with Core 2 Duos; according to roadmaps recently seen by TG Daily especially with computer systems built around consumer systems and Intel's Viiv entertainment PC specification. The P965 apparently will be offered alongside the 975X chipset for "premium" systems, while mainstream computers will rely on a different 965 variant, the G965. A third 965 chipset, the Q965, will surface in business PCs and higher end desktop systems that are equipped with Core 2 E6000 and Core 2 Extreme CPUs.