Bearlake is the collective code-name for Intel’s new generation of chipsets and the high-end model of this family has now been named. Intel X38 will is for the high-performance computer and gaming systems, which becomes quite obvious when you check out the specifications. The perhaps biggest difference from its siblings is that the X38 chipset will support PCI Express 2.0 and that motherboards based on this motherboard will be equipped with two PCIe x16 slots. You will be able to use two graphics cards in pairs and the performance will be further optimized through a technology called Performance Auto-tuning which dynamically overclock the system and the performance. Intel X38 supports the coming 1333MHz bus and can be paired with DDR3 memory of the same frequency.
The other chipsets of the Bearlake family are called P35, G35, G33 and G31, ranging from mid-range to the budget segment. P35 and G35 are expected to appear during the second quarter of 2007 while X38 and G35 are not expected to arrive until the third quarter together with the budget circuit G31.
