INTRODUCTION TO INTEL CHIPSET ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

This chapter gives an overview about Intel’s next generation chipset and basic blocks of the chipset architecture. The best way to define chipset is as a set of chips that provides the interfaces between all of the PC's subsystems. It provides the buses and electronics to allow the CPU, memory and input/output devices to interact. Earlier Intel used the name "Triton" for its chipsets. It also used the name PCIset for PCI-based chipsets.