Platform Images of the Ibex Peak Emerge

[btarunr]

The first platform image of a reference motherboard based on the 1160-pin land grid array (LGA-1160) and its initial corresponding core-logic Ibex Peak has emerged, it was pictured at the Intel Developer Forum. The pictures show a company reference board with the LGA-1160 socket. A quick glance over the board shows its most significant feature, the core-logic (chipset) is now consolidated into a single chip instead of the traditional northbridge + southbridge design. The board features four DDR3 slots, the processors that make it this platform, namely Lynnfield and Havendale would sport dual-channel memory controllers. This board merely demonstrates the platform, it cannot be taken as Intel's final design at this point. Next to the DDR3 slots can be seen a SO-DIMM slot, that goes on to show that the very same platform could drive Nehalem's mobile platform.



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[roberto888]

What is that Short Dimm next to the DDR3 Slots at the right?:O

 

[btarunr]

What is that Short Dimm next to the DDR3 Slots at the right?:O

It's an SO-DIMM (laptop memory) slot. It's to demonstrate that the same primary system design makes it to notebook as well: CPU, Ibex Peak..... we did some news a while ago. http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?68232

 

[roberto888]

OK. Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 3]

What is that Short Dimm next to the DDR3 Slots at the right?:O

You know it clearly says that in the text right?