i865PE Waves PAT Goodbye...

by Anton Shilov
07/24/2003 | 10:26 AM

Sources among mainboard manufacturers said today that Intel will be replacing the existing revision of the i865P and i865PE chipsets with a new one that will not allow turning on the Performance Accelerating Technology, a very proprietary feature of Intel Canterwood also known as i875P core-logic.

Earlier this year almost all mainboard makers positioning their products for the retail market and hardware enthusiasts started to switch on Intel’s PAT on i865P and i865PE-based mainboards, causing sales of i875P chipsets to slump. In order to rebound sales of the higher-end desktop chipset, Intel plans to introduce a special revision of Springdale core-logic with hardware modification that does not allow setting the more aggressive transactions between memory and core-logic, the conception of Intel’s Performance Accelerating Technology.

Just after the new revision of Springdale makes it to the market, sales of the i875P will go upwards rapidly, Intel seems to believe.