Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Day 2: Learn about Prescott & Centrino

Louis went on to talk about the 865 and 875 chipsets, including live demonstrations of both of them (Springdale & Canterwood):

Intel's 875 (Canterwood) chipset running Windows Media Center Edition

Louis spoke about the 875 chipset's Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) or "Turbo mode" as we've come to know it. He confirmed our original theories that it optimizes the memory controller for DDR400 operation, and the technology will only be built into the 875MCH - most likely in the form of deeper buffers optimized for dual channel DDR400 memory transfers.

With Louis' 865 (Springdale) slide we were able to see on paper what we've been talking about since Comdex. Here you'll see the Communications Streaming Architecture (CSA) stemming off from the 865 MCH in order to provide dedicated bandwidth to Intel Gigabit Ethernet solutions as we've mentioned in the past. For more information on Intel's 865 and 875 chipsets be sure to take a look at our coverage posted to the newsletter last night.