Some new information on Eaglelake chipsets which will succeed the P35, G35 and G31 has been published.
Expected out in the second quarter of next year, they will be engraved in 65nm. Intel seems to be eager to raise the level of current IGPs and therefore, besides DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support, the G45 (Eaglelake-G) will also offer hardware decoding of VC1 and H.264 in 1080P. HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI connections are planned as well as SDVO compatibility. As for the G43 (Eaglelake-GV), it will be stripped of most advanced video functions and will manage memory on two channels, each being limited to a single DIMM port. They will serve in making PCI-Express 2.0 and DDR3 more common; however, they will especially be the last Intel chipsets with a memory controller as the arrival of the Nehalem will signal their integration to the CPU.
