Intel to ship 18 million own 915/925 boards

The boards will be based on the 915/925 Grantsdale/Alderwood chipsets, according to the Taiwan Economic News, as part of a push to establish the PCI Express motherboards as an industry standard.

The same report said that Intel could ship as many as 18 million of its own motherboards in the next year, with Hon Hai, FIC and Mitac also making boards for the chip giant.

These products, like boxed CPUs, are sold through Intel's distributor and dealer network - the so-called channel. It also sells CPUs in trays, for system integrators who order its processors in this manner.

According to roadmaps seen by the INQUIRER, Intel is releasing an unprecedented number of different branded boards in the coming months, based on sets and subsets of the chipsets, launched last weekend.

Those include boards based on the 925X chipset codenamed Culver City, and Black Canyon; 915P boards codenamed Glen Ridge, Battle Lake, Sharkey, Cherry Creek and Comanche Creek; 915G boards named Avalon, Eatonville, Augsburg, Luxemburg, Iron Falls, Hammonton and Marblehead; a 915GV West Branch board and a 910GL "Downey" mainboard.

Poetry in motion. There will be refreshes of these boards specifically for the 1066MHz system bus Intel is expected to enable later on this year. µ