Intel Eaglelake (ICH10) + GeForce 7 EOL + VRM11.1 released for Nehalem LGA 1366

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Intel has completed designing their Bearlake desktop boards based on P35 and G35 chipsets with the launch on March 15th. We can expect to see a slew of Bearlake boards designs from the motherboard makers during CeBIT. Boards development for its successor "Eaglelake" are going start soon and it will be pairing up with ICH10 Southbridge to support higher FSB Penryn processors. ICH10 as revealed in our earlier article supports 10GB and Wireless Ethernet controllers with some new technologies to reduce CPU load and improve power consumption

NVIDIA 7950GT, 7900GS, 7600GT and 7600GS will reach EOL soon to make way for GeForce 8600 (G84) series. The last shipment is on 28th of April and we can expect to see fewer GeForce 7 series on the market from mid Q2 onwards.

Intel has released the VRM design guidelines for the future Intel LGA 1366 Nehalem processors. The latest VRM design guide is updated from 11.0 to 11.1 with addition of output current "Iout" feature to support LGA1366 processors, Power on Configuration (POC) and Market Segment Identification (MSID) functions muxed onto VID lines during power up, Power State Indicator Input (PSI#) added, single step D-VID added for C-state entry and exit. Features removed from VRM 11.1 are VID_Select, VR-Fan and VR10 VID. Few months back, we have discussed about new Socket B for Bloomfield and its clock speed to hit above 4GHz and has 8MB shared L2 cache.

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