Intel will ship its Pentium 4 chipset, 'Grantsdale', as the i915 family on 21 June, alongside a set of 775-pin processors, sources familiar with the chip giant's plans have claimed.

As reported (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040527150852.html) by Xbit Labs, the sources say Intel will formally announce the i915 name next week at Computex, re-christening its high-end P4 chipset 'Alderwood' as the i925 at the same time.

Many of Grantsdale's features - DDR 2 SDRAM support; PCI Express; Serial ATA; Hi-Definition Audio; restyling Extreme Graphics 3 as the Graphics Media Accelerator 900; soft wireless access point technology - are well known, but sources close to the company tell The Register that the Intel will announce a number of features that have not yet leaked out.

The GMA 900, for instance, is known to support DirectX 9.0's pixel shader 2.0 specification - vertex shaders are handled in software. It also supports OpenGL 1.4. It can handle dual displays, using RGB, DVI, 1080i and 720p HDTV, s-video, and composite and component outputs. The graphics core is clocked at 333MHz. ®

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