14 DAY TRIAL // As end-users may know, Intel is holding the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, where it is discussing its upcoming products, and it seems that the company is working on not just its new batch of Sandy Bridge CPUs, but also on a P67 motherboard of its own.
Already Intel took advantage of IDF to showcase not just the logos of the upcoming CPUs, but also a die shot of the quad-core Sandy Bridge model itself.
Not only that, but even a pair of P67 motherboards, made by Gigabyte, were revealed to be well on their way to entering availability.
Now, Intel itself has revealed that it has been developing a mainboard of its own designs, which goes by the name of DP67BG,
This board is, naturally, built around the P67 chipset, which means it can house central processing units based on the 32nm manufacturing process and designed with the LGA 1155 socket.
The board uses the ATX form factor and features four DDR3 memory slots, as well as a pair of SATA 6.0 Gbps connectors, besides the four SATA 3.0 Gbps ones.
A pair of PCI Express x16 slots are also present, eager to enable SLI or CrossFireX multi-GPU configurations.
Other specifications include 7.1 channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet, an eSATA connector and even two USB 3.0 ports, so that the various SuperSpeed-ready external storage devices may work at their fullest.
Of course, since the chipset itself does not natively support the new standard, Intel had to use a Renesas (ex-NEC) controller.
Finally, this black-colored board should be ready to be bought before the year is out, although it will probably lose face when pitted against the mainboards that the various hardware manufacturers are sure to launch in the meantime or immediately afterwards.
ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and others shouldn't take long to unveil their own offers.