HARDWARE SPOTLIGHT:

The next weeks will be saturated by new products: Intel prepares three processors models core i7, and its partners will support this event releasing motherboards , three-channel memory collections , cooling systems and other associated products.

• Supported processors : LGA 1160, Lynnfield (four core) and Havendale (dual core);
• PCI- E 2.0 expansion : one in x16 regime or two x8;
• Ports SATA II : six, with RAID 0/1/5/10 support ;
• Ports USB 2.0 : 14;
• Gigabit Ethernet, HD audio.

The P55 Chipset  from Intel will be incorportated in the next generation motherboards provided by the leading manufacturers 

Products for  LGA-1366 processor are positioned in the high performance segment. For the mass segment will come the LGA-1160 socket and the platform ibex peak. This processors  will support only dual-channel memory and use the DMI interface as system bus  .